ISLANDIA
by WRIGHT, Austin Tappan
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, ( 1958 ). New Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo, 1018 pages, cloth, slight acidic burn at facing pages 376-377 from a bookshop bookmarker; dj frayed at perimeter. .
Back by popular demand, this is Wright's only published novel, preceded only by a single short story, "1915?". His imaginary world, Islandia, has been compared to Tolkien's Middle Earth. This appeared after his sudden death, after being edited down from the 2300-page mss. "It is a work of high intellectual power, of deep human insight, of penetrating social and philosophical criticism, and it is also a work of poetic and passionate tenderness." - Lawrence Clark Powell. Has anyone seriously compared and contrasted this to that other lawyer's work, Thomas More's UTOPIA ? Map endpapers, internal map partially reproduced on the top cover. [ Bleiler2, p. 212 ].
Back by popular demand, this is Wright's only published novel, preceded only by a single short story, "1915?". His imaginary world, Islandia, has been compared to Tolkien's Middle Earth. This appeared after his sudden death, after being edited down from the 2300-page mss. "It is a work of high intellectual power, of deep human insight, of penetrating social and philosophical criticism, and it is also a work of poetic and passionate tenderness." - Lawrence Clark Powell. Has anyone seriously compared and contrasted this to that other lawyer's work, Thomas More's UTOPIA ? Map endpapers, internal map partially reproduced on the top cover. [ Bleiler2, p. 212 ].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230424
- Title
- ISLANDIA
- Author
- WRIGHT, Austin Tappan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York & Toronto
- Date Published
- ( 1958 )
- Keywords
- utopia, fantasy, austin tappan wright,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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