THE EDGE OF TOMORROW.
New York: Bantam Books, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#88773)
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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: Bantam Books, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#88773)
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Chelmsford: Edmund Durrant & Co. ... London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ld., 1895. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-271 [272: printer's imprint] + single leaf of publisher's ads inserted at rear, inserted frontispiece, original decorated orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and gold, rear panel stamped in red, all edges untrimmed. First edition. (#75233)
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[London: C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd.], n.d. [1953]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#151355)
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London: Scion, Ltd., [1950]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-128, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#151342)
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Llandudno: Published by The Kaner Publishing Co., Ltd., n.d. [1947]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-80, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#66711)
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Llandudno: Published by The Kaner Publishing Co., Ltd., n.d. [1947]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-80, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#66712)
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[New York]: Avon Eos, [1998]. Small octavo, boards. First edition. (#138128)
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[New York]: A Bluejay International Edition, [1986]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#2175)
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Paris: Du Fonds des Freres Estienne. Chez Nyon l'Aine ..., 1783. 12mo, pp. [1-3] 4 [5] 6-7 [8-9] 10-442 [443-456], contemporary brown calf, spine panel tooled in gold, brown leather title label affixed to spine panel, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. New edition. (#23057)
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New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1891. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iii] iv [v-vi] [1] 2-222 [223-229: ads] [230-232: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original dark blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g. First edition. (#89831)
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San Francisco, Cal: Better Days Publishing Co., 1891. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-373 [374-376: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], flyleaf at front, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, light blue endpapers. First edition. (#145354)
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London: The New Age Press, 1908. Small octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 9-56 + 1-8: ads, original purple pictorial wrappers. First edition. Variant issue with fore and bottom edges untrimmed. (#96117)
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New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#87938)
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New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#142506)
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Boston: Shepard, Clark & Co. Auburn and Rochester: John E. Beardsley, 1855. 12mo, pp. [i-v] vi-viii [9] 10-406 [407-412: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, ten inserted plates (including frontispiece and extra illustrated title page) with illustrations by Frederick M. Coffin engraved on wood by Edward Bookhout, original decorated gray cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, pale yellow endpapers. First edition. (#157183)
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Paris: Chez Michel Guerout, Court-neuve du Palais, au Dauphin, 1687. Small octavo, pp. [i-xxiv] [1] 2-297 [298-299] [300: blank] [includes first blank], inserted folded plate with illustration by J. D'Olivar, early brown calf, spine panel lettered and richly tooled in gold, page edges stained red. Second edition, expanded. (#157009)
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London: King, Sell, & Olding, Limited ... Portsmouth: Holbrook & Son, Limited, 1910. Octavo, original pictorial red cloth, stamped in black and gold. First edition. (#138643)
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London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1906. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8 [9] 10-340, original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and white, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel. First edition. (#149048)
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New York: Ballantine Books, [1991]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#93340)
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New York: Ballantine Books, [1991]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#145248)
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. Octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-6] [1] 2-248; [1-4] [1] 2-250 + 24-page publisher's catalogue dated "11/86" inserted at rear, original maroon cloth, spine panels stamped in gold, top and fore edges untrimmed, bottom edges trimmed, slate coated endpapers. First edition. (#80766)
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Paris: Librairies Léon Willem ... Paul Daffis ... , 1875. pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-92 [93] [94: blank] [95: colophon] [96: blank], inserted frontispiece with engraving by E. Tavernier, original Japanese velum printed in black. First edition. (#151230)
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Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. (#104394)
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Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1890. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-415 [416: ad] [note: first leaf is a half title leaf], fifteen inserted plates with illustrations by W. Bretsnyder, original decorated navy blue bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, headbands, no flyleaves, brown coated endpapers. First edition. (#130718)
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Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1890. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-415 [416: ad] [note: first leaf is a half title leaf], fifteen inserted plates with illustrations by W. Bretsnyder, original decorated navy blue bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, headbands, no flyleaves, brown coated endpapers. First edition. (#136645)
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Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1890. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-415 [416: ad] [note: first leaf is a half title leaf], fifteen inserted plates with illustrations by W. Bretsnyder, original decorated navy blue bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, headbands, no flyleaves, brown coated endpapers. First edition. (#137078)
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Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1890. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-415 [416: ad] [note: first leaf is a half title leaf], fifteen inserted plates with illustrations by W. Bretsnyder, original decorated navy blue bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, headbands, no flyleaves, brown coated endpapers. First edition. (#138581)
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Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-407 [408: blank], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. (#157155)
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#149178)
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#89310)
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#146492)
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#149179)
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Jamaica, Queensborough, New York: The Marion Press, 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-6] 7-50 [51] [52-56: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], vignette title page printed in red and black, original drab boards with quarter leather (horsehide) spine panel, brown leather label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. (#136313)
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#104498)
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New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1993]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#93785)
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New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1993]. Octavo, printed gray wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. (#106039)
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New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1993]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#109684)
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London: Orbit, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#145756)
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New York: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1971. Octavo, original pictorial mustard cloth, stamped in red and black. Later edition. (#149827)
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Paris: Chez Paulin, Libraire-Editeur, 1841. 12mo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-358 [359-360: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], flyleaves at front and rear, modern blue cloth, red leather spine label. Third edition, revised and expanded. (#111084)
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London: Chapman & Hall Ld., 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-246 [247-248: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in black, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. (#151311)
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Boston: The Stratford Company, Publishers, 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-8] 9-293 [294: blank], eleven inserted plates with illustrations by Frank R. Paul, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. (#102711)
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New York: Walker and Company, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#104466)
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London: Michael Joseph, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#141857)
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#31939)
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[New York]: Bantam Spectra, [1988]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance readers copy of the first U.S. edition. (#2307)
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[New York]: Bantam Spectra, [1988]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance readers copy of the first U.S. edition. (#154770)
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1946]. Octavo, pp. [iv] v-viii [ix-xii] [13] 14-240, original orange cloth, spine panel stamped in black, top edge stained orange. First edition. (#137360)
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London: Faber and Faber, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First British edition. (#2335)
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London: Faber and Faber, [1971]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. (#132210)
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Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1987]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#2341)
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Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1987]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. (#104919)
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London: Anthony Gibbs Library 33 Limited, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. (#146413)
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New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1981]. Octavo, boards. First edition. (#105149)
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New York: Ace Books, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. (#156785)
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München: Verlag Kurt Desch, [1949]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-583 [584-588], gray boards with gray cloth shelf back, front panel stamped in gold, spine panel stamped in red and gold, top edge stained gray. First edition. (#140757)
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New York and Chicago: F. T. Neely, Publisher, [1892]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-352, five inserted plates with illustrations by Edward Mason, original decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in olive-green. First edition. (#130725)
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New York: G. W. Dillingham Company Publishers, [1910]. Octavo, pp. [3-9] 10-471 [472: blank] [473-474: ads], four inserted plates with illustrations by Joseph Cummings Chase, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. (#90472)
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