THE NEW NORTHLAND. New York: Thomas Benton, 1915. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-391 [392: blank], 16 inserted plates with illustrations by Albert Operti, original blue cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. North of Cape Barrow Arctic explorers discover Krocker Land, an Edenic valley inhabited by people of mixed Hebraic-Eskimo stock whose power is derived from a small stationary radium "sun." Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 914. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction, pp. 159-162. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 354. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 95. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 85. Reginald 06250. Stains on upper part of rear cover and lower corner of spine panel, else a fine, bright copy. (#75355).
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