THE FOOL KILLER. By A. Fugitive [pseudonym]. Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1885. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i] ii-iv [[i-ii] [9] 10-316, flyleaves at front and rear, publisher's decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in green. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Coxe on the front flyleaf. The protagonist dematerializes in a Chicago office building and re-materializes in the body of a recently deceased inhabitant of a utopian Mars. "Detailed eutopia stressing cleanliness, honesty, high technology, workers and capitalists working together" (Sargent). Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Volume I, p. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V291. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 73. Not in Lewis or Negley. Not in Wright, American Fiction 1876-1900. Cloth lightly worn along bottom edges, spine panel dull, a tight, internally clean, very good copy. (#179095).
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