first edition
1954 · New York
by Vidal, Gore
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1954. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Cavism, the religion of suicide, conquers most of the world." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1185. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 190-6. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 106. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 195. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 253. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2488. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with light edge wear, mainly head and tail of spine panel and along portion of top edge of rear panel. (#75784) (Inventory #: 75784)