THE HESPERIDES: A LOOKING-GLASS FUGUE. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-7 [8] 9-318 [319] [320: blank], original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition, probable first issue. "The protagonist is taken to Venus, where he finds a totalitarian collectivist state in which religion and free speech are ruthlessly suppressed. He becomes involved with dissenters, who are eventually forced to take arms. An idiosyncratic satire with one or two nice touches, but rather long-winded." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-88. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-88. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 153. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 142. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 172. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 883. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 212. Bleiler (1978), p. 154. Reginald 11150. A nearly fine, bright copy. (#20539).

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