(#157193) FUTURE LIFE; OR, SCENES IN ANOTHER WORLD. George Wood.
FUTURE LIFE; OR, SCENES IN ANOTHER WORLD ...

FUTURE LIFE; OR, SCENES IN ANOTHER WORLD. New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1858. 12mo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi] xii-xiv 15-359 [360: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, brown coated endpapers. First edition. A popular account of the afterlife. On the publication of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's THE GATES AJAR, Wood's book was reissued as THE GATES WIDE OPEN OR SCENES IN ANOTHER WORLD ... (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869) and four editions were sold in one week. "Heaven but presented as an eutopia of beauty, art, and so forth." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 54-5. George Wood (1799-1870), American civil servant and author, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, worked as a government clerk in the War Department beginning in 1819 and from 1822 to 1845 (and after) worked in the Treasury Department, ultimately as the director of its navigation division. He was a contributor to the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE, NATIONAL ERA, and other journals, and author of satirical and social fiction. See Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, VI, p. 593. Kopp 993. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 118. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1211. Bleiler (1978), p. 211. Reginald 15596. Not in Lewis. Wright (II) 2786. Early ownership stamp on verso of front free endpaper and lower margin of page 167. Damp stains to preliminaries and first half of the text, but a very good copy. (#157193).

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