THE CITY OF THE SUN ... Newly Translated by A. M. Elliott and R. Millner. Introduction by A. L. Morton
first edition
1981 · London & West Nyack
by Campanella, Tommaso
London & West Nyack: The Journeyman Press, 1981. Octavo, printed wrappers. First printing of this translation. The first English-language translation of the original Italian version (based on Campanella's amended manuscript [circa 1611] edited by Luigi Firpo). Trade paperback format. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-10; (1981) 1-36; and (2004) II-209. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 355 (citing another 1981 translation from the Italian by Daniel J. Donno). Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 186. Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (eds), Dictionary of Literary Utopias, pp. 112-17. Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel C6. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 37. Negley, Utopian Literature 181. A fine copy. (#24019). (Inventory #: 24019)