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THE ISLAND OF FANTASY: A ROMANCE ... New Edition

by Hume, Fergus[on Wright]

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  • Bookseller: L. W. Currey, Inc.
  • Seller Inventory #: 109302
  • Format: Original decorated teal cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown and gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, endpapers printed in yellow green with publisher's monogram.
  • Book condition: Cloth rubbed at edges, a tight, clean, very good copy. (#109302)
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: London: Griffith Farran and Co., n.d.
  • Date published: [1893]

Book Description

London: Griffith Farran and Co., n.d.. [1893]. original decorated teal cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown and gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, endpapers printed in yellow green with publisher's monogram.. Cloth rubbed at edges, a tight, clean, very good copy. (#109302). First one-volume edition. Utopian novel of the establishment of an ideal community along classical Greek lines on an isolated island in the Aegean Sea. Preceded by Griffith Farran and Co's very uncommon 1892 three volume edition. Blackford, et al., Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, p. 226. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 97. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 119. Negley, Utopian Literature 599. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985, p. 95. Bleiler (1948). p. 155. Not in Bleiler (1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992).

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