first edition
1964 · New York
by Neville, Kris
New York: Belmont Books, 1964. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont Books 92-611. Dystopia in which Earth's future children are selected by the Administrator of a carefully regulated genetic system and fathered by the sperm of famous donors in the Baths of Malneen. But there is friction between the Weeds (the underclass) and the Bingos (the elite) in this somnolent society and soon it will be destroyed or rebuilt to the glory of its past. The author's first book. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1984, p. 293. Reginald 10637. Faint surface crease to front cover, else a fine copy. (#74880) (Inventory #: 74880)