1890 · Boston
by William Morris
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. Very Good. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First U.S. Edition following it's original serialized appearance in Commonweal. Octavo. 278 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Maroon cloth stamped in white and gilt with "Solidarity of Labour" in a band around the world to front. Decorative endpapers.
Moderate lean to boards, worn along edges with brief exposure and minor fraying to extremities, rubbing to lettering. Binding is sound. Ownership stamp and signatures to preliminaries and a few stray pencil markings, but overall interior legible and unmarked.
Utopian romance featuring "a nature-and-handicraft ideal society, based on communism and anarchism." [Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1562].
[Anatomy of Wonder 2005 II-788]. (Inventory #: 26733)
Moderate lean to boards, worn along edges with brief exposure and minor fraying to extremities, rubbing to lettering. Binding is sound. Ownership stamp and signatures to preliminaries and a few stray pencil markings, but overall interior legible and unmarked.
Utopian romance featuring "a nature-and-handicraft ideal society, based on communism and anarchism." [Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1562].
[Anatomy of Wonder 2005 II-788]. (Inventory #: 26733)
