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BELLAMY, Edward (1850–1898). Looking Backward, 2000–1887. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888.
8vo. Original grey cloth stamped in black and gilt (spine slightly skewed with a few tiny spots of edgewear).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with imprint of J.J. Arakelyan on copyright. Considered “the most famous American utopian romance” that “inspired the Nationalist movement, which sought government ownership of productive and distributive facilities, to be brought about by ballots, not revolution” (Grolier).
BAL 956; Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 2–14 (“the progenitor of several hundred utopias, both in American and Europe”); Bleiler, The Early Years 163 (“the most influential American literary eutopia”); Grolier, American 90; Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 37.