THE ANOME.
[New York]: A Dell Book, [1973]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#87485)
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Introduction by Boyd White
Although Sir Thomas More coined the word utopia in the 16th century from Greek that translates literally as “no-place,” in common usage the term refers to an imagined ideal community constructed upon egalitarian principles of economics, government, and justice. While its homophone eutopia, derived from Greek that means “good place,” is the correct term for a positive utopia, utopia and eutopia have been used interchangeably for decades.
More’s Utopia (1516), a fictional account of the religious, social, and political customs of an island society located in the South Atlantic, is not the earliest example of a proposal for an ideal community. That distinction rests with Plato’s Republic (380 BC), a rigid class-structured society ruled by philosopher-kings whose wisdom has eliminated poverty and want through the equal distribution of all resources. For every utopian ideal a political philosopher or satirist has imagined, however, a counter proposal has never been far behind. The deification of logic and reason in Plato’s Republic reaches its horrific extreme in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) when the narrator finds himself among the Houyhnhnms, a race of hyper-intelligent talking horses without emotion, who have degraded and enslaved human beings because humanity, from the Houyhnhnm point of view, lacks reason and cannot overcome its base nature.
Lloyd Currey’s Utopian and Anti-Utopian Literature explores the innumerable ways that authors throughout the centuries have imagined rebuilding and perfecting civilization, as well as their inevitable anxieties about how such attempts to save humanity may ultimately only end up destroying it. As Lloyd’s catalog illustrates, from the rustic matriarchal households of W. H. Hudson’s A Crystal Age (1887) to the interstellar mixture of socialism and anarchy in Ian M. Banks’ Matter (2008), utopias and dystopias have taken many forms.
While the classics of the literature are certainly well represented—Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888), Thea von Harbou’s Metropolis (1926), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), and Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (1962)—the most fascinating books Lloyd has gathered include some of the earliest and least known examples of the genre, unclassifiable works that combine elements of lost race fiction, interplanetary romance, occult fiction, and high fantasy. Simon Berington’s The Memoirs of Sigr. Gaudentio di Lucca: Taken from His Confession and Examination before the Fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna in Italy (1737), recounts di Lucca’s life as a successful artist in the kingdom of Mezzoraim in Northern Africa among isolated descendents of the ancient Egyptians whose culture is defined by a natural religion that channels all ambition for material gain into a desire to benefit the nation as a whole. James Reynolds’ Equality; A History of Lithconia (1837), one of the earliest American utopian novels, describes an island society that “denounces private property and requires no assistance from the divine, placing its faith in bureaucracy to impose order, technology to reduce drudgery, and omnipresent gardens to instill virtue.” Neither of these titles, however, compares with the screwball eccentricity of Austyn W. Granville’s The Fallen Race (1892) in which the lone survivors of the doomed Frisbee Expedition into the Great Australian Desert find themselves in the land of the Anonos, the descendants of female aborigines and a particularly randy troop of kangaroos, or John O. Greene’s The Ke Whonkus People (1893) in which an arctic utopia executes its religious heretics by sacrificing them to vampire dragons who drain their blood in underground caverns.
Perhaps the most remarkable work in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Literature is Shirby T. Hodge’s The White Man’s Burden: A Satirical Forecast (1915). Written by Roger Sherman Tracy, a noted graduate of Yale University and an associate of the New York Board of Health, this remarkable book is narrated by an unnamed white man from 20th-century New Hampshire who is mysteriously transported to West Africa in 5027 AD. The narrator encounters a remarkable utopia inhabited by African-Americans who relocated after achieving economic superiority in North America and eventually defeating the white race in a devastating war. Characterized by technological marvels such as air cars, interplanetary travel, and disintegration rays, the society the narrator explores is essentially anarchist with no laws, private property, money, or prisons, each person working at whatever he or she chooses to do. A ground-breaking work decades ahead of its time socially and politically, The White Man’s Burden: A Satirical Forecast is a work ripe for rediscovery by scholars and enthusiasts.
Of course, not every author has embraced the progressive economic and social reforms that have characterized such ideal societies. For many early writers, the concept of an idealized socialist utopia is inextricably linked to the enslavement of the individual and the erasure of all creativity or desire. Frank Cowan’s Revi-Lona: A Romance of Love in a Marvelous Land (1879) satirizes numerous tropes of 19th-century utopian fiction in its depiction of a super-scientific matriarchy destroyed, as the author says, by a “big and brawny man, with many of the vices of his sex and years.” Likewise, Walter Besant’s The Inner House (1888) imagines the eradication of aging through medicine and the institution of a socialist state not as unleashing humanity’s unlimited potential but instead as breeding out all individuality, desire, and creativity. While The Inner House is often read as a literary precursor to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948), Besant’s novella, unlike Orwell’s masterpiece, is steeped in anxieties about the progressive social movements of its time and is best understood as the kind of anti-utopian work that gets taken to its logical extreme in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957) and its rejection of governmental controls for unrestrained capitalism and individual achievement.
Lloyd rounds out Utopian and Anti-Utopian Literature with an excellent selection of key contributions by modern and contemporary speculative fiction writers, including Zenna Henderson’s Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961), Keith Roberts’ Pavane (1968), Suzy McKee Charnas’ Motherlines (1978), Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1985), Elizabeth Hand’s Glimmering (1997), and Charles Stross’ Glasshouse (2007).
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[New York]: A Dell Book, [1973]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#87485)
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Zurich: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1922. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-406 [407] [408: printer's imprint], four figures and one table in the text, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. (#133835)
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London: Hutchinson & Co., 1889. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-331 [332: blank] [333-336: ads], original bevel-edged pictorial tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., black coated endpapers. First British edition. (#108348)
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London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 12mo, three volumes: pp. [i-iii] iv-viii [1] 2-309 [310: blank]; [i-ii] [1] 2-331 [332: blank]; [i-ii] [1-2] 3-311 [312: printer's imprint], rebound in eighteenth-century style three-quarter leather and marbled boards, spine panels lettered and richly tooled in gold. Second edition, revised. (#152141)
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New York: Pantheon Books, [1980]. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xi] xii-xxii [1-3] 4-297 [298], cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#157304)
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Indianapolis, Ind. Downey & Brouse, Printers, 1866. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v-vii] viii-xiii [xiv-xvi] [17] 18-256, flyleaves at front and rear, inserted frontispiece (a portrait of the aged hermit) with yellow tissue guard, original brown cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges marbled. First edition. (#157098)
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-370 [371-372: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], ten inserted double-page plates with illustrations by David Low, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, front panel ruled in blind, publisher's windmill device stamped in blind on rear panel. First edition. (#91112)
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] [1-2] 3-318, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g. First U.S. edition. (#156373)
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London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-342 [343-344: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Claude Shepperson, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, black coated endpapers. First British edition, first binding. (#80302)
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London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, [1945]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-50, original pink boards with blue cloth shelf back, front panel stamped in dark blue, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. (#80308)
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London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1923]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-304 [305-308 blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks used as front and rear paste-downs and free endpapers], original decorated green cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. Probable second binding with "Cassell" at base of spine stamped in blind. (#91124)
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-327 [328: blank], original plain red cloth, all edges plain. Advance copy of the first U.S. edition. (#130784)
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London: Chapman & Hall, Ld., 1905. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xi [xii] 1-392 [393] [394-396: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], seven inserted plates with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan, original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges rough-trimmed. First edition. (#78019)
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London: Chapman & Hall, Ld., 1905. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xi [xii] 1-392 [393] [394-396: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], seven inserted plates with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan, original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. (#130680)
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London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-287 [288], original brown cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. (#80427)
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vii] viii [1-2] 3-346 [347] [348-350: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks; title leaf is a tipped in singleton], illustrations, title page printed in orange and black, original blue cloth, printed white paper label affixed to spine panel, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed, light blue endpapers. First U.S. edition. (#107187)
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Boston: Gregg Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. First printing of the Gregg Press edition. (#156436)
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London: William Heinemann, 1895. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-151 [152], original decorated tan cloth, front and rear panels stamped in purple, spine panel stamped in light blue; binding measures 18.2 cm vertically; "HEINEMANN" at base of spine set in 12-point type; top edge uncut, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First British edition, second cloth binding, no inserted publisher's catalogue. (#151827)
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1895. Small octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-216 [217-218: blank] [219-224: ads], inserted frontispiece (with tissue guard) with illustration by W. B. Russell, original decorated tan buckram, front and spine panels stamped in purple, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, first printing with author's name incorrectly printed as "H. S. WELLS" on recto of title leaf. (#152320)
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-389 [390: printer's imprint] [391-392: ads], sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by A. C. Michael, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition, first binding with all lettering and decoration on front and spine panels in gold and "George Bell & Sons" at base of spine panel. (#80376)
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-389 [390: printer's imprint] [391-392: ads], sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by A. C. Michael, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, color pictorial paper inlay on front panel, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition, later binding. (#80429)
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-389 [390: printer's imprint] [391-392: ads], sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by A. C. Michael, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first binding with all lettering and decoration on front and spine panels in gold and "George Bell & Sons" at base of spine panel. (#152643)
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London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-328 [329] [330-332: blank] [note final leaf is a blank], three inserted plates with illustrations by H. Lanos, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. (#80385)
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London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-328 [329] [330-332: blank] [note final leaf is a blank], three inserted plates with illustrations by H. Lanos, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. (#111306)
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London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-328 [329] [330-332: blank] [note final leaf is a blank], three inserted plates with illustrations by H. Lanos, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. (#140011)
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New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#87805)
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New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#152300)
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated Publishers, [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-312. illustrations by Georges Schreiber, original blue-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition, first printing with "F&R" monogram on copyright page. (#96045)
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London: Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#88992)
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London: Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#154114)
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London: Jonathan Cape, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#132195)
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