Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Language: English
Published by Seven Stories Press,U.S., 2000
ISBN 10: 1583220216 ISBN 13: 9781583220214
Seller: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, Australia
Paperback. Upton Sinclair, Seven Stories Press,U.S. In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half-mile-high structure in the middle of Central Park. During the grand opening of the towering building, a scientific experiment with radiumite explodes killing everybody throughout the world except eleven of the people at the Pleasure Palace. They escape the deadly rays by flying high in the sky in a revolutionary 1000-mph airplane called "The Monarch of the Air!" The fortunate eleven survivors struggle to rebuild their lives by creating a capitalistic society. After that fails, along with several other inept efforts, they create a successful utopian society on the lush grounds of a grand country estate in the Pocantico Hills above the Hudson River. Sinclair's life-long vision, "The Cooperative Commonwealth," reigns happily forever after, in this classic of the literature of political imagination. Paperback.
Published by London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929, 1929
Seller: Books on the Web, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
First Edition
Hard bound in blue cloth, first British edition. Gilt titles to spine. Miniature tear to head of spine. Edges a bit spotted and rear board somewhat scuffed with a small indentation otherwise a tight, unmarked, very good or better copy, without a dust jacket as issued. 400 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.