Lot Details
Lot 17
BELLAMY, EDWARD Two titles.
Comprising: Looking Backward. 2000-1887. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888. First edition, first printing. Publisher's gray cloth, spine and front panel stamped in gilt and black, slipcase and chemise. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); [i]-vi, [7]-470 pp., with 1 p. ad at front. Some soiling and wear to cloth, toning to spine, spine ends softened, bottom corners bumped, binder's glue offsetting to endpapers; And Equality. New York: Appleton and Company, 1897. First edition. Publisher's salmon linen, stamped in gilt and brown. [i]-viii, 412 pp, with 8 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Light soiling and wear, spine a bit dulled, endpapers toned, a few pages with offsetting from old inserts.
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward was the most important American utopian novel of its day, one of the biggest bestsellers of the nineteenth century, and a highly influential book both culturally and politically. For example, it helped inspire William Morris' News From Nowhere, as well as the creation of "the Nationalist movement, which sought government ownership of productive and distributive facilities, to be brought about by ballots, not revolution" (Grolier, American, p. 120). The book is offered here with a copy of its sequel, Equality, published nine years later.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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