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  • AS FLIES TO WHATLESS. by Antoni, Robert.
    Antoni, Robert.
    AS FLIES TO WHATLESS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Akashic Books, 2013. First edition - Award-winning historical novel set in 1845 Trinidad. "In 1845 London, an engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan, John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society (TES), and recruits a variety of London citizens to take his machines and his misguided ideas to form a proto-socialist, utopian community in the British colony of Trinidad." Edwidge Danticat called this "a marvel of narrative and documents, which collide to create a book that is at times breathtaking and tragic and at other times laugh-out-loud hilarious." Winner of the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize. 327 pp plus final message.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a very different cover than the trade edition)

    Book ID: 81115
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  • THE END OF THIS DAY'S BUSINESS. by Burdekin, Katharine (1896-1963)
    Burdekin, Katharine (1896-1963)
    THE END OF THIS DAY'S BUSINESS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    New York: The Feminist Press, (1989). First edition - Written in 1935, as Hitler and Mussolini were rising to power, this anti-fascist novel was not published until this edition - Set 4000 years in the future, it focuses on "the desire of a woman to teach her son about the past. Risking both their lives, she tells the story of the rise of fascism and the subsequent world transformation as life-loving women took over from death-loving men." Afterword by Daphne Patai. 190 pp. ISBN: 1-55861009X.

    Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers.

    Book ID: 87184
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  • WALKAWAY. by Doctorow, Cory.
    Doctorow, Cory.
    WALKAWAY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. First edition - After watching the breakdown of modern society, Hubert, Etc, has nowhere left to be except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. But when he falls in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society and walk away. But it is still a "dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike." INSCRIBED and dated on the title page "For ...…

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    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. First edition - After watching the breakdown of modern society, Hubert, Etc, has nowhere left to be except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. But when he falls in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society and walk away. But it is still a "dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike." INSCRIBED and dated on the title page "For ... live as though it was the first days of a better nation!" 379 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated orange wrappers with a cut-out on the front cover.

    Book ID: 74949
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  • THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS. by Du Bois, William Pene (1916 - 1993)
    Du Bois, William Pene (1916 - 1993)
    THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1947) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming story of a retired San Francisco professor of arithmetic who - after years of dealing with unruly boys in the classroom - wants nothing more than peace and quiet, and so he devises the idea of a gentle balloon flight around the world. Things don't turn out quite as he expects when he crash lands his balloon on the island of Krakatoa, shortly before it erupts. There he discovers an strange society of nothing but billionaires - all from San Francisco - supported by a hidden diamond mine. A wonderful combination of gentle humor, utopianism, adventure, some surrealist fantasy, a bit of steampunk and factual…

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    New York: The Viking Press, (1947) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming story of a retired San Francisco professor of arithmetic who - after years of dealing with unruly boys in the classroom - wants nothing more than peace and quiet, and so he devises the idea of a gentle balloon flight around the world. Things don't turn out quite as he expects when he crash lands his balloon on the island of Krakatoa, shortly before it erupts. There he discovers an strange society of nothing but billionaires - all from San Francisco - supported by a hidden diamond mine. A wonderful combination of gentle humor, utopianism, adventure, some surrealist fantasy, a bit of steampunk and factual information ("Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened'), including some real balloon inventions, illustrated with delightful pencil drawings the by author. Although set in 1883, this was written for a world just emerging from World War II - in fact, the first paragraphs which contrasts the speed of different forms of travel refers to changes coming in the Atomic Age - and so one can understand the appeal of this book which depicts a world of wonders far removed from war. Winner of the 1948 Newbery award. SIGNED on the front endpaper by du Bois. 180 pp.

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    Condition: Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket without the award medallion (some discoloration from binder's glue to the endpapers, and some light shelfwear, toning to the interior of the dj, but overall a tight and straight copy,with the original price of $2.50 on the dj flap) Newspaper clipping from 1948 announcing the Newbery award laid in.

    Book ID: 78981
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  • Hall, Lynn.
    TOO NEAR TO THE SUN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chicago & New York Follet Publishing Company. 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel set in the utopian community of Icaria in Iowa in 1875 in the years before the 'wings of Etienne Cabot's dream began to melt' as the younger members resisted the socialism of the community. Illustrated with woodcuts by Stefan Martin. ISBN: 0-695-40069X.

    Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket.

    Book ID: 17970
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  • LOOKING FORWARD: The Phenomenal Progress of Electricity in 1912. by Hillman, H. W.
    Hillman, H. W.
    LOOKING FORWARD: The Phenomenal Progress of Electricity in 1912.

    Edition: First edition.

    Northhampton, MA: Valley View Publishing Co., 1906. Hardcover first edition - Dedicated to Edward Bellamy, this is somewhat of a sequel to his "Looking Backward" (the "1912" in the title is based on 25 years after Looking Backward was published). While written as a novel, the story only very thinly overlays the discussion of how cheap and clean electricity (mostly from hydropower) can transform the world. Includes an interesting chapter on rebuilding San Francisco after the earthquake. However, despite the fact that this is only set a few years into the future, it was far too optimistic - more than 100 years later, we are still dependent on dirty fossil fuels. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 glossy plates by W. L. Greene. 320 pp.

    Condition: Fair condition only in blue cloth with white lettering - lettering is totally rubbed off the spine, and significantly rubbed on front cover, stain to bottom edge of textblock, but despite the flaws this is still quite sturdy and readable.

    Book ID: 72942
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  • HE, SHE, IT by Piercy, Marge
    Piercy, Marge
    HE, SHE, IT

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Piercy's highly praised science fiction novel - an interweaving of 2 stories, one that of a young woman in the 21st century in the vast toxic wasteland that used to be North America, the other a kabbalist in the 16th century in Prague's Jewish ghetto. ISBN: 0-679-404082.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 17629
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  • Piercy, Marge
    HE, SHE, IT

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Piercy's highly praised science fiction novel - an interweaving of 2 stories, one that of a young woman in the 21st century in the vast toxic wasteland that used to be North America, the other a kabbalist in the 16th century in Prague's Jewish ghetto.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A relatively uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 19559
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  • HE, SHE, IT by Piercy, Marge
    Piercy, Marge
    HE, SHE, IT

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Piercy's highly praised science fiction novel - an interweaving of 2 stories, one that of a young woman in the 21st century in the vast toxic wasteland that used to be North America, the other a kabbalist in the 16th century in Prague's Jewish ghetto. ISBN: 0-679-404082.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 42058
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