[Rarebooks] FS: TLS/ISLANDIA

Deborah Thornton Pendleton dtpendle at ceinetworks.com
Wed May 2 14:42:12 EDT 2007


For Your Consideration.

WRIGHT, Austin Tappan. ISLANDIA. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 
(1942). With SIGNED, typed letter by Sylvia Wright (the author's 
daughter and editor of the epic "Islandia") referring to the novel, a 
new edition by Rinehart, and an Islandia Reader. A 1958 NY Times article 
about the book is laid in. 8vo. in original cream cloth lettered in 
gilt. Covers a little soiled and spine a bit darkened. Illustrated map 
endpapers by Robert Graves. Wright's first and only novel, published 
posthumously. A classic Utopian novel of great depth and detail. $325

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