EQUALITY. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-viii 1-412 [413-420: ads], fly leaves at front and rear, original decorated salmon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in sliver and black. First edition. Sequel to Bellamy's influential LOOKING BACKWARD 2000-1887 (1888). Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-13; (1981) 1-17; (1987) 1-7; and (1995) 1-7. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 058. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 201. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917, pp. 182-83. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 111. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 66-7. Bleiler (1978), p. 20. Reginald 01066. BAL 967. Wright (III) 459. A fine copy in a printed dust jacket with wear and short closed tear along top and bottom edges, some rubbing and general dust soiling and internal mends along top and bottom edges with paper tape. The scarce jacket is attractive overall. (#172989).
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