LOOKING WITHIN: THE MISLEADING TENDENCIES OF "LOOKING BACKWARD" MADE MANIFEST. New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1893. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv] 1-279 [280-284: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated sea green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown and gold. First edition. "A bitter, contradictory, anti-utopian novel utilizes a sleeper who awakes in 1927 (K vs. L war), 2000 (Bellamy's utopia encourages sin and laziness, human nature cannot be changed), and 2025 (a return to a slightly modified nineteenth-century civilization instantly transforms America into a virtuous, prosperous land)." - Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 195. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1879. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 165. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 978. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 100. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 54. Bleiler (1978), p. 168. Reginald 12265. Wright (III) 4568. Cloth mildly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, front free endpaper adhered to front paste-down (appears to have happened during the binding process), else a near fine, bright copy. A superior copy of a book that is rarely found in nice condition. (#77449).
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