BROOKS, Byron Alden. Earth Revisited
BROOKS, Byron Alden. Earth Revisited. Boston: Arena Publishing Co. 1893. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s maroon cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. 318pp, plus 4pp ads to rear. A scarce and important work in the field of utopian fiction. In the first-person, the novel opens with protagonist Henry falling ill and dying. He awakes into the twentieth century, with accurate speculations including solar power, electric vehicles, and societal changes including a juvenile justice system. The novel should sit alongside Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888). This particular copy even more important for its provenance; from the collection of legendary bibliophile, George Locke, with a slip loosely inserted from Jos Amadeo gifting the book to Locke, dated 1976. A very good copy overall, some light rubbing to board corners, spine head and tips, some tape reinforcing to front endpaper gutter and ghosting to rear endpaper, pulled leaves elsewhere, but holding very well indeed, and despite some occasionally intense toning, a clean and bright copy overall; seldom do copies appear on the market, the ones that do tend to be ex-lib and in poor state. Scarce as such.
BROOKS, Byron Alden. Earth Revisited. Boston: Arena Publishing Co. 1893. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s maroon cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. 318pp, plus 4pp ads to rear. A scarce and important work in the field of utopian fiction. In the first-person, the novel opens with protagonist Henry falling ill and dying. He awakes into the twentieth century, with accurate speculations including solar power, electric vehicles, and societal changes including a juvenile justice system. The novel should sit alongside Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888). This particular copy even more important for its provenance; from the collection of legendary bibliophile, George Locke, with a slip loosely inserted from Jos Amadeo gifting the book to Locke, dated 1976. A very good copy overall, some light rubbing to board corners, spine head and tips, some tape reinforcing to front endpaper gutter and ghosting to rear endpaper, pulled leaves elsewhere, but holding very well indeed, and despite some occasionally intense toning, a clean and bright copy overall; seldom do copies appear on the market, the ones that do tend to be ex-lib and in poor state. Scarce as such.
BROOKS, Byron Alden. Earth Revisited. Boston: Arena Publishing Co. 1893. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s maroon cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. 318pp, plus 4pp ads to rear. A scarce and important work in the field of utopian fiction. In the first-person, the novel opens with protagonist Henry falling ill and dying. He awakes into the twentieth century, with accurate speculations including solar power, electric vehicles, and societal changes including a juvenile justice system. The novel should sit alongside Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888). This particular copy even more important for its provenance; from the collection of legendary bibliophile, George Locke, with a slip loosely inserted from Jos Amadeo gifting the book to Locke, dated 1976. A very good copy overall, some light rubbing to board corners, spine head and tips, some tape reinforcing to front endpaper gutter and ghosting to rear endpaper, pulled leaves elsewhere, but holding very well indeed, and despite some occasionally intense toning, a clean and bright copy overall; seldom do copies appear on the market, the ones that do tend to be ex-lib and in poor state. Scarce as such.