DIE ERSTE MILLIARDE DER ZWEITEN BILLION. DIE GESELLSCHAFT DER ZUKUNFT. Berlin: Verlagt bie Paul Cassirer, 1919. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-350 [351: blank] [352: ads], original tan boards, front and spine panels printed in brown, top edge stained brown. First edition. The only German pro-Bellamy sequel. Most German responses to LOOKING BACKWARD (1887) were stridently anti-Bellamy. Negley, Utopian Literature 1074. Bloch (2002) 3071 (giving the publisher as Vorwarts). Kretzmann, The Pre-War German Utopian Novel (1890-1914), Ph.D. diss., Brown University, May, 1936, p. 58 (not seen). Chip from upper spine end, boards worn along outer joints and along front fore-edge, some spotting to boards, but a tight, internally clean reading copy of a cheaply made book. A rare book. (#147112).
Price: $450.00
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