MORGAN ROCKEFELLER'S WILL: A ROMANCE OF 1991-2. Portland, Oregon: Clarke-Cree Publishing Co., 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-306 [307-310: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original pictorial green cloth, front cover stamped in black. First edition. By 1990 Morgan Rockefeller owned everything in the United States. Upon his death he bequeathed his fortune - except a million dollars for his missing niece - to the United States Government to be held in trust for the American people. The book describes the "establishment of a new government controlled by a new fraternal order, Reapers of the World, in part organized by the niece. A kind of cooperative socialism is developed, and the utopian millennium is reached by the year 2000." - Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 44. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 427. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 145. Bleiler (1978), p. 44. Reginald 03053. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 C-468. A very good copy. (#20142).
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