Islandia. [With:] An Introduction to Islandia by Basil Davenport
by Wright, Austin Tappan
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Beige buckram, map endpapers. Very good copy without dust jacket. Quite scarce with Davenport's prospectus, which is bound in pa
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Islandia is "a land describable as a Utopia, though it is in fact too densely imagined and free of cognitive shaping to fit happily into that prescriptive category ... The heart of the book lies in its extremely elaborate picture of an invented alternative society and its inhabitants, who are drawn with haunting richness" (SFE).
Islandia describes the journey and adventures of John Lang, a once very proper American college student. Austin Tappan Wright did not just write a novel of adventures in a strange land and civilization; Islandia is a country with a history, towns, cities and streets, its own geography, language, people (and demographics), politics, law and customs, even its virtues and faults.
This copy is accompanied by the now very scarce prospectus, An Introduction to Islandia, by Basil Davenport, discussing Wright's creation of Islandia, "the imaginary country of a schoolboy, which was not abandoned as he grew up." The prospectus inludes history, maps, poetry, a bibliography, and demographic charts (such as Grazing Farms and Non-Farming Population). An absolutely fascinating book.
[With:] "Austin Tappan Wright: A Centennial Celebration", edited by Fred Lerner, duplicated from Niekas 32 (pp. 35-42), collects a 1956 lecture by Lawrence Clark Powell, and contributions by others.
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 353747
- Title
- Islandia. [With:] An Introduction to Islandia by Basil Davenport
- Author
- Wright, Austin Tappan
- Format/Binding
- [x], 1013, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Beige buckram, map endpapers. Very good copy without dust jacket. Quite scarce with Davenport's prospectus, which is bound in pa
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, with the publisher's insignia on the copyright pa
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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