PARK: A FANTASTIC STORY. Edited by Philip Healy. [Manchester]: Carcanet [Press], [1984]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First paperback edition. A neglected utopian satire first published by Eric Gill in a limited edition of 250 copies in 1932. "A short and dreamlike novel in which the hero, Dr. Mungo Park [a famous early African explorer], dies and reawakens and seems to find himself in a future inhabited by a new race of black Catholics who are technically tremendously sophisticated, while the rodent-like descendants of degenerate white Englishmen live underground in wonderfully excavated caverns." - Fiona MacCarthy, The Times. Afterword, pp. 109-128, by Philip Healy. Trade paperback format. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 195. A fine copy. (#160793).
Price: $25.00
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