(#132895) THE SCARLET EMPIRE. David Parry.

THE SCARLET EMPIRE. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1906]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-400 [401-404: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], ten inserted plates with illustrations by Hermann C. Wall, original pictorial red pebbled cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, probable first binding. Among the most powerful and imaginative novels of Atlantis. In this scathing satire on socialist philosophy, Atlantis is depicted as a corrupt authoritarian dystopia. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-125. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1753. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 620. Eichner, Atlantean Chronicles, pp. 180-81. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 143. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 173. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 891. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 138. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 154. Reginald 11195. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 P-133. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 2785. Top edge of text block dusty, else a bright, nearly fine copy. (#132895).

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