[Rarebooks] FS: Introduction to Wright's ISLANDIA

[Bob Petrilla]

(Wright, Austin Tappan).  AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLANDIA: Its history,
customs, laws, language, and geography as prepared by Basil Davenport from
"Islandia: History and Description" by Jean Perrier, first French Consul to
Islandia, and translated by John Lang, first American Consul.  With maps
drawn by John Lang.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1942).  First Edition.
61pp; cover serves as title-page; four black-and-white maps on coated
stock.  Bound in printed cream boards, in the publisher's glassine wrapper
which is chipped at the bottom.  Prior owner's name in pencil on endpaper,
dated March 1943.   8.5" x 5.5".  Very Good condition.

Issued by Farrar & Rinehart to promote advance orders for Wright’s
Islandia, the tale of a fully realized imaginary country which has been
likened in that respect to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, though more
akin to a utopia than a standard fantasy (credit to Wikipedia).  [Bleiler,
Checklist of Fantastic Literature, 290.]   $125

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