Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Hollywood, CA: : The Limited Editions Club,, 1941.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine, in yellow cloth boards with red design, lacking the scarce slipcase.. Limited, signed edition. A classic of Utopian fiction, in an edition designed and printed By Merle Armitage; .illustrated with monochrome print in blue, red, green, gray, black or purple by Elise.… Ler mais sobre este item

Looking Backward 2000-1887, Bellamy, Edward, The Musson Book Company Ltd. Toronto, 1934. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 245 pages. Red cloth boards, black spine titles. Unclipped art deco dustjacket illustrated by Peacock. Small chips and closed tears to dustjacket; volume has prior owner's name to free endpaper otherwise text block is clean without marks, tears or folds. Binding is firm… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888. First edition, first issue with "J. J. Arakelyan" imprint on verso of title leaf of this classic utopian novel. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. An exceptional example.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Second printing thus. 12mo. 337pp. Yellow cloth soiled, spine head nicked, else very good.

A nearly fine copy with light wear at spine ends and corner tips. Memorial edition, stated four hundred and twenty-fourth thousand, of Edward Bellamy's classic utopian, socialist science fiction novel. This copy is signed on its front page not by the author, but by two other famous people. Exlibris and signature of Cyril G. Wates (1883-1946)- an author, mountain climber, and amateur astronomer.… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Hardcover. xvii, 337p., original red cloth binding, spine lettering dulled, minor soiling on the spine, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper. No dj. First published in 1887 The Riverside Library.

Boston, Massachusetts: Ticknor and Company, 1888. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Fair. A classic of utopian literature, wildly popular in its day & never out of print since its initial publication in 1888. By the same publishers as the First Edition (not the later reprints with the new publisher), this is the Sixth Edition, also c.1888, a… Ler mais sobre este item

Ohio: World Publishing Company. 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1 inch open tear at spine heel. .

First printing with J. J. Arakelyan on the copyright page and "wore" for "were" on page 210 line 8. Bound in the scarcer orange/brown cloth with black lettering and gilt particulars. Housed in a custom chemise in an attractive red morocco over red cloth slipcase with five raised bands. Previous owner's tipped-in bookplate over his previous pasted bookplate to the… Ler mais sobre este item

Broadview Press Inc, 2003. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Frederick Warne and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. [c1890?]. Cloth. No date [1890?]. 192 pages. Rebound in textured maroon cloth covers. Owner's signature on half-title page. Stains on endpapers. Cloth water damaged on rear board. Internally . ; 12mo .

Paperback. LIKE_NEW.

Houghton Mifflin, 1898. Hardcover. Near Very Good. Early Issue, originally published in 1889 by Houghton Mifflin. This is a Near Very Good Nineteenth Century issue. No jacket, bound in green cloth, which has moderate soiling and spotting; a frayed crown and foot of spine cloth. Interior is clean, no markings. A classic early edition of a nineteenth-century Time… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Random House. Modern Library edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 276p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a very good dustjacket. Binding barely cockeyed and gilt spine text slightly dull with age. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is fully intact, just a bit shelf-worn. Modern Library no. 22 with Rockwell Kent endpapers. Undated vintage printing, ca.… Ler mais sobre este item

Broadview Literary Texts, 2003. Trade paperback. Fine. Broadview Literary Texts, c2003. 288pp. 8vo. Uncreased spine, fine trade paperback.

Tower Books, 1946. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Dust jacket has wear and tears on the edges, 1" tear upper left corner front, sunned spine. Blue cloth boards are quite worn on the lower corners, lightly worn upper corners, worn head/tail of spine. Bookplate front endpaper, wartime paper is very tanned and fragile, chip top of half title… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. 337pp. Small stain on bottom edge, corners and spine ends slightly bumped and worn, spine lettering rubbed, very good, lacking the dust jacket. A science-fiction novel of a man who falls asleep and wakes up 113 years later in a socialist utopian America.… Ler mais sobre este item

New American Library, 1962. Paperback. Good. 1962. 2nd Printing. 222 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. The Riverside Library. 8vo, pp. 337. A very good copy bound in publisher's cloth, stain at the hinge of the rear endpaper. Inscribed by Bellamy's wife: "To Walter James Henry | God Bless you for what | you are doing in Kirkland | yours Sincerely | Emma S Bellamy" Also inscribed by Bellamy's daughter: "As… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. [c.1951-63]. Hardcover. Edward Bellamy's novel, first published in 1888, envisioned a socialist utopia in the year 2000. With an introduction by Robert L. Shurter and a preface & postscript by the author; as well as a bibliography. --- In Toledano spine 8 /… Ler mais sobre este item