QUINTURA: ITS SINGULAR PEOPLE AND REMARKABLE CUSTOMS. London: John and Robert Maxwell, n.d. [1886]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-191 [192: blank], publisher's decorated blue flexible cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel plain, white endpapers. First edition. Rare utopian SF novel of a scientifically advanced classless society. Has some satiric touches. "Technological utopia, satirical and very prescient." - The Stuart Teitler Collection of Lost Race Fiction, page 40. "... many pointed jibes at the foibles and inadequacies of our modern civilization, as seen by the jaundiced eyes of the supposedly enlightened, somewhat eccentric Quinturan people." - Leon Gammell. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 48 (describing this binding). Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 74. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 28-29. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905 VI, p. 295. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Light wear to cloth, lacks front free endpaper, a tight, clean, very good copy. (#175343).
Price: $750.00
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