YOUNG WEST, A SEQUEL TO EDWARD BELLAMY'S CELEBRATED NOVEL LOOKING BACKWARD. Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1894. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-283 [284: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original light green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. "Julian West's son's biography provides a detailed account of the life cycle in Bellamy's utopia (especially education). Emphasizes that fundamental change comes only with the gradual internalization of new values over several generations." - Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 198. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1958. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 674. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 173. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 190. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1006. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917, p. 196. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 104. Bleiler (1978), p. 175. Reginald 12759. Wright (III) 4812. Early owner's signature dated January 1895 on front free endpaper. Hint of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and several corners, a bright, near fine copy. The publisher's leaf regarding the colored margins is laid in. A lovely copy and uncommon in this condition. (#90930).

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