PHOENIX
first edition
1968 · London
by Cowper, Richard (pseudonym of John Middleton Murry)
London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The glittering world of the twenty-fourth century is destroyed by a war and fifteen centuries later we are back in a quasi-middle-ages epoch of slaves and treadmills." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 162. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 305. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#1568) (Inventory #: 1568)