ARQTIQ: A STUDY OF THE MARVELS AT THE NORTH POLE. [Hanford, Cal.]: Published for the Author [Oakland, Calif.: Carruth & Carruth, Printers], 1899. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-80, publisher's decorated olive wrappers printed in black. First edition, first printing. "The heroine invents an airship, and with her husband flies to a utopian country called "Arc" at the North Pole. Includes a brief trip to the interior world, which is found to be a human-operated machine. Rationalized as a dream." - Teitler catalogue 3. "Eutopia at North Pole. Idealized people. Equality of the sexes." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 117. The Stuart Teitler Collection of Lost Race Fiction, p. 1. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 5. Bleiler (1978), p. 2. Not in Negley or Roemer. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Wright (III) 30. Rebacked, lower fore-edge corners of first two leaves chipped with loss of a few letters on the last line of first leaf. This is the Teitler copy, formerly the DLC duplicate copy with its duplicate stamp. The copy retained by DLC was replaced by "preservation microfilm" and its whereabouts is unknown. The only copy reported by OCLC is at Macquarie University (NSW). A remarkable survival of an exceedingly rare book. (#178986).
Price: $4,500.00
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