IN THE WET. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1953. Octavo, blue cloth, spine stamped in yellow. First U.S. edition. "The journal of an Australian outback priest who copies down from a dying man a utopian vision (or memory) of the British Empire circa AD 2000, anticipates a time when Australia has become the leader of the Commonwealth, royalty has survived handsomely, socialism has faded away, and the Empire is secure." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1104. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-343. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 94. Fortunati and Trousson, eds., Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 304-5. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 248. 1954 gift inscription on the front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good dust jacket trimmed a bit shorter than the book (with illustration by Barye Phillips) with small internal tape reinforcements at the bottom of the rear panel with show through on outer surface and clipped price. (#160468).
Price: $100.00
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