LIFE IN A THOUSAND WORLDS. Cleona, Pa. Published by G. Holzapfel, Sole Manufacturer, [1905]. Octavo, pp. [3-9] 10-344 [note: text complete despite gap in pagination; inserted plates are included in the publisher's page count and the frontispiece is considered to be pages (1-2)], nineteen inserted plates, title page printed in red and black, original pictorial light blue cloth, front panel stamped in dark blue and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, red sprinkled edges. First edition. This book was sold by subscription and occurs with a number of variant distributor's imprints on recto of title leaves, sequence of issue, if any, unknown. An occasionally imaginative book that describes the inhabitants and institutions of twenty-one other worlds, including Heaven, in and beyond our solar system visited by a narrator who transports himself at will through the cosmos. Basically a vehicle for advocating economic, political and social reforms. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1050. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 401. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 82. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 106. Locke, Voyages in Space 102. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917, pp. 189-90. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 134. Bleiler (1978), p. 94. Reginald 06810. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 H-286. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1607. Early owner's signature dated 1 August 1905 on front free endpaper. Cloth lightly worn at edges, spine stamping dull, top edge of sheets dusty, 25 mm closed tear at bottom edge of frontispiece plate, a good copy, (#139361).
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