THE FUTURE POWER: OR, THE GREAT REVOLUTION OF 190 --. Westminster: The Roxburghe Press, n.d. [1897]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 1-79 [80: ads] + tipped in colophon leaf, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold,all edges untrimmed. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "With the author's love." The "Great Strike" results in a socialist utopia in England and its success triggers worldwide strikes to topple other oppressive governments. "The human race has been born again" and "future ages" will be "replete with everything that ingenuity can devise, or invention suggest ..." Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 23. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Volume II, p. 60. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 550. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 113. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p. 98. Reginald 07099. Tiny book label of W. J. West on the front paste-down. Several spots on cloth, spine panel sunned, a very good copy. (#156837).
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