THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS: A STORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND AFTER
by Shanks, Edward
Price: $100.00
- Bookseller: L. W. Currey, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 129228
- Format: Original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black.
- Book condition: Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, edges of text block somewhat age-darkened, a tight, clean, very good copy. A nice co
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers,
- Date published: [1920]
Book Description
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers,. [1920]. original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black.. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, edges of text block. somewhat age-darkened, a tight, clean, very good copy. A nice copy of. a book seldom found in decent condition in a facsimile of the rare. dust jacket. (#129228). First U.S. edition. "General strike in 1924 marks the beginning of the collapse of civilization. 150 years later England is reduced to neolithical barbarism." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy, p. 147. "The first of the many British postwar novels that foresee Britain returned to barbarism by the ravages of war." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-107. "One of the most widely read scientific romances of the post-war years ..." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 239. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-88 and (1987) 2-97. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2002. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 684. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 48. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 236. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 193. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1024. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516- 1985, p. 166. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 12922.
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