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The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] STANDERSON, Grantly
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1916. First Edition. First printing. Green textured cloth boards, stamped in white on spine and front cover; 538pp. Straight, well-preserved copy, lightly rubbed at board extremities and mildly dusted at text block edges; Very Good to Near Fine, and unusual thus. Uncommon New Thought novel, set in Utah with a strong anti-Mormon subplot. A contemporary review in The Overland Monthly stated that "...the author believes he has a sacred message for the human race; it is clothed in this book for the purpose of reaching many readers." We doubt he succeeded in that purpose; this is one of the more obscure publications from the Chicago socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr, never before seen by us and represented only by some scattered 20 institutional holdings in OCLC (one of which - British Library - incorrectly provides a 1914 publication date). SMITH S-799. FLAKE 8357. Missed by Hannah, despite clear social content; and by Bleiler, despite clear fantasy content; and by Sargent, despite probable utopian content.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38743
- Title
- The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes
- Author
- [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] STANDERSON, Grantly
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles H. Kerr
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1916
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction; Utopian Literature;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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