FROM EARTH'S CENTER: A POLAR GATEWAY MESSAGE. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1895. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-274 + [1-8] [1]-4 [1]-2: ads, publisher's tan pictorial wrapper printed in black, side stapled. Second edition. This book was published by Kerr in 1894 in paper wrappers. It was reprinted in 1895, also in paper wrappers, as number 10 of Kerr's "Library of Progress," a subscription series, which is what we have here. A journey into a hollow earth of the the Symmes type where the protagonists find Centralia, a English-speaking, scientifically advanced nation, organized according to the theories of Henry George. "Describes a single-tax nation beneath the North Pole where all industries and institutions are automatically guided by competition (e.g., teachers compete for students)." - Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 198. "A wealthy Californian discovers a tubular steel passage at the North Pole, which leads him and others to a country inside the Earth. "Centralia" is a country of ancient origins, with highly progressed technologies and social systems." - The Stuart Teitler Collection of Lost Race Fiction, p. 231. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2321. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1174. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917, p. 199. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 105. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 14983. Printed on wood pulp paper which is darkened, a good copy. A very scarce book. Enclosed in a cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. (#172295).
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