THE DREAM OF DEBS: A STORY OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLT. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative, n.d. [not before 1912]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-32, original cream pictorial wrappers printed in blue (photograph of Debs on front panel). First edition, first (or early) printing without "price" on front panel and with advertisement for "History of the Supreme Court of the United States by Gustavus Myers" on rear panel. Short story, first published in INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST REVIEW, January 1909, later collected in THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG (1914). "... a fine science fiction story as well as revolutionary tract in which for once London used an orthodox Marxist analysis to draw a picture of the future -- a future that is not merely a projection of tendencies already present in his day, but is instead the outcome of as-yet-invisible forces that are the dialectical antithesis of the ones determining the reader's familiar existence. It is excellent science fiction that explores the social and human impact of a great scientific innovation, the development of proletarian class consciousness. As a work of propaganda it is one the socialist propagandists have never tired of reading, for it describes the future as the outcome of that very transformation of consciousness that is the goal of the revolutionary agitator" - Richard Gid Powers. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1357a. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 113-14. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. BAL 11941 (printing A). See Bleiler (1978), p. 126. See Reginald 09154. Text block printed on pulp paper stock which is age-darkened, very fragile wrappers separated along spine fold with just a bit of shallow chipping along the spine edges, a very good copy. Early printings of this booklet are uncommon. (#95361).
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