THE NEW GULLIVER. Jamaica, Queensborough, New York: The Marion Press, 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-6] 7-50 [51] [52: colophon] [53-56: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], vignette title page printed in orange and black, original full horsehide, brown leather labels affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed (binding by Stikeman & Co). First edition. Two simultaneous printings totaling 420 copies of which this is one of 120 numbered copies printed at The Marion Press. "Short lost race satire in which an American is shipwrecked on the island of the Houyhnhums in the 1870s. One of the most attractive of the many sequels to Gulliver." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 89. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 855. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 69. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 115. Bleiler (1978), p. 80. Reginald 05814. Wright (III) 2130. A bit of rubbing to the horsehide at the upper edge of the front cover, a nearly fine copy. (#160225).
Price: $150.00
"ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY COPIES / PRINTED ON THE MARION PRESS, JA- /MAICA, QUEENSBOROUGH, NEW-YORK, / AUGUST, MDCCCXCVIII" on colophon page.