Item 10807The Minutes
London: Fowler Wright Ltd, 1928. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. 14 short stories, it eponymous story being a utopia. A lovely copy in the jacket, light edgewear and a little spotting to the edges.
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Item 11222Anna Perenna: A Novel
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A rare Utopian fiction. A satire in which the monarchy is reinstated a hundred years hence, following a competition. Jacket a touch torn, worn and creased. Pull to the spine and an l-shaped tear to the lower.....
Item 11293Ionia; Land of Wise Men and Fair Women
Chicago: E.A. Weeks, 1898. J.C. Leyendecker. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A utopian novel, and not overly common. "Ionia is a singularly self-satisfied Greek civilization hidden in the Himalayas, boasting advanced aircraft, prohibition, mandatory Eugenics (sterilizations are frequent) and communism (and no Jews: as they were quarrelsome.....
Item 10983The Little Wicket Gate: An Experience Ex Nihilo
London: A.C. Fifield, 1913. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy in the dustjacket. A liminal fantasy with a utopia existing beyond the little wicket gate featuring some advanced technology, gender equality, religion and a pretty much post-scarcity society. A little foxing to a few of the leaves, offsetting.....
Item 13430A.D. 2000
Chicago: Laird & Lee, nd [c1890]. Later Paperback. A good copy. Likely published after the hardback first issue, but much scarcer. Utopian tale in which inventor and army officer Junius Cobb puts himself in suspended animation and reawakes in the year 2000 to find a technologically-advanced North America powered by.....
Item 12080Revelations of the Dead-Alive
London: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, 1824. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An interesting piece of proto-sf. "a satire of the cultural world of London couched as a fantastic voyage a hundred years [1823] hence to various societies whose distortions mirror his deprecatory sense of the English.....
Item 11993Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred
London: W. Jones, 1802. Later Hardback. A very good copy. Subtitled: A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. A supremely important Utopia, set in a contemporary Paris (alas, not a first edition). A milestone of proto-science fiction. The book was first published in France in 1771 with an English translation the.....
Item 10946Hygeia: A City of Health: A Presidential Address Delivered Before the Health Department of the Social Science Association at the Brighton Meeting, October 1875
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. Firist / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Written to help illustrate how sanitation could improve lives, the book nowadays can be seen as equally a work of Utopian fiction. Including certain novel ideas such as a balance between cremation and burial, wherein the dead.....
Item 12613The Silent Voice
Boston: Four Seas Company, 1925. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy in a good jacket. An uncommon utopia set in the far future, featuring gender-role reversals. Uncommon in the jacket, albeit a worn jacket in this case. That said, it's only just been put in a jacket protector.....
Item 10222No Sting, No Honey
London: Arthur Barker, 1938. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. An uncommon utopia where women dominate over men on a South Pacific island. Jacket edges are chipped and creased, with some loss. Two tears taped. Heavy lean, price-clipped, some dustiness. Boards grubby. I wouldn't be surprised if this is.....
Item 10154The Story of a Lost Planet or the Wonderful Submarine
Sydney: The Worker Trade Union Print, 1919. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. "A trade-union survivor of the destruction of Earth recounts these events to sympathetic auditors on Canopus" [Clute, SFE]. Uncommon. No copies in the UK, copy in the NLA though. Wraps a little foxed, paper tanned.....
Item 10726Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
London: Frederick Warne, 1891. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. First British edition, maybe. There was a Sampson, Low edition which appears to be the authorised issue, suggesting this isn't authorised. The Sampson Low edition apparently has ads dated October 1890 (the US first edition was published in.....
Item 13387The Island of Not-Me
New York: The Galleon Press, 1935. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A totalitarian Utopia in the vein of Swift. The jacket is a little toned with some chipping and a large tear to the reverse, some general handling wear and signs of age. Full title: The Island.....
Item 10019Modern British Utopias - 1700 to 1848/1850 in Eight Volumes
London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997. First / First. Hardback. A near fine set. Complete, and I think the first book we've sold that's still in print (£500 from Routledge). Covers a bit knocked and dusty but a nice enough copy overall. Reprints 38 British utopias. A great collection.
Item 13398The Lost Children
London: Hutchinson, nd [1931]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Subtitled: The Story of an Utopia. A lost race tale / utopian novel: three modern-day travelers discover a hidden civilisation in the Carpathians inhabited by the descendants of the children led away from Hamelin by the Pied Piper.....
Item 11150With Gyves of Gold
New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1888. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon work. "A young man, experimented upon by a modestly Mad Scientist, develops the paranormal ability to travel by astral means to another planet, where he observes the operation of a Utopia in which small firms.....
Item 9685Two Thousand Years Hence
London: Chapman & Hall, n.d. [1867]. J. Gilbert. First / First. Hardback. A good copy only. O'Neil was best known for his artwork, but this foray into fiction has left a smaller but equally long lasting mark on Utopian fantasy. Ex-Library with stamps etc. Boards scuffed and worn, somewhat soiled.....
Item 10099The Diothas or a Far Look Ahead
New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1883. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. An important American Utopian work, preceding Bellamy. A little shaken, softening to the tips and a bit rubbed. Top edge dusty.
Item 9623A Queen of Castaways
London: Methuen, 1912. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A feminist utopia. A slight darkening to the spine, and some bumping to the tips. Owner's inscription to the front pastedown. Tear to the front endpaper.
Item 10452Our Glorious Future
London: C.W. Daniel, 1931. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon. A utopia wherein religion and science find harmony. Some edgewear to the jacket, but largely in excellent shape. A couple of short nicks and chips. A little dusty.
Item 10562The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast based on Present Possibilities
Eggington: John Hodgson, 1929. Limited Paperback. A very good copy. An uncommon work of Utopian SF. Signed by the author to the limitation page as issued. Additionally, a few holograph corrections by the author. Wraps a little toned and worn, but largely in excellent shape. Some chipping and flaking to.....
Item 10563The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast based on Present Possibilities
Eggington: John Hodgson, 1929. Limited Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon work of Utopian SF. Signed by the author to the limitation page as issued with additional inscription. Additionally, a few holograph corrections by the author. Rebound in half leather. Leather worn and split. Internally sound.
Item 10252Ten Thousand Years in a Block of Ice
London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A future race / utopia novel. Our protagonist is revived after having spent 10,000 years in a block of ice. A little bumping to the spine tips and a little rubbing. The slightest hint of foxing. 2pp.....
Item 10379Morgante the Lesser: His Notorious Life and Wonderful Deeds
London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1890. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to the title page. An uncommon Utopian work from the Irish author and first president of Sinn Fein. Some bumping to the spine tips and corners.
Item 12012Heliondé; or, Adventures in the Sun - Dedication Copy
London: Chapman & Hall, 1855. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Signed by the author on the title page. Additionally signed by Walter Whiting, Sydney's brother, with a lengthy inscription presenting the book from the author to Sir David Brewster, to whom the book is dedicated. "[The] protagonist.....