GARDENS ONE TO FIVE. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Allegory of the stupidity of mankind who is collectively incapable of dealing with change: the running man moves through gardens one through four, each inhabited by people pursuing a worthy goal in a stupid way, bringing change as he passes through. When he reaches garden five, he is killed for upsetting the world order by United Nations forces. "Progress through five successive gardens proves an experiment by the now omniscient U.N." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 162. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-573. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 336. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#60339).
Price: $35.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.