(#136313) THE NEW GULLIVER. Wendell Phillips Garrison.

THE NEW GULLIVER. Jamaica, Queensborough, New York: The Marion Press, 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-6] 7-50 [51] [52-56: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], vignette title page printed in red and black, original drab boards with quarter leather (horsehide) spine panel, brown leather label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Two simultaneous printings totaling 420 copies of which this is one of 300 unnumbered trade copies. "Short lost race satire in which an American is shipwrecked on the island of the Houyhnhums in the 1870s. One of the most attractive of the many sequels to Gulliver." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 89. Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840-1907), son of noted reformer and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), was the literary editor of THE NATION, 1865-1906. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 855. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 69. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 115. Bleiler (1978), p. 80. Reginald 05814. Wright (III) 2130. Some scattered foxing to endpapers and text block, a nearly fine copy. (#136313).

Price: $100.00

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