Islandia (First printing)

Austin Tappan Wright

Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1942

About this Item

Light soiling to cream colored boards. Endpapers depicting maps in as new condition. Pages clean and bright. Green text block intact. Dust jacket has some wear to spine top and to bottom lower right. Tight binding. A very nice copy. First edition, first printing with priced dust jacket. Also has the "Reward" card that was issued with this book that is usually missing. A highly detailed Utopian fantasy that Wright labored over for years, only to have it posthumously published. The introduction is by Leonard Bacon, the afterward by Sylvia Wright, the author's editor & daughter. Generally considered a "utopian" novel, Islandia describes the journey and adventures of John Lang, a once very proper American college student. Austin Tappan Wright did not just write a novel of adventures in a strange land and civilization; Islandia is a country with a history, towns, cities and streets, its own geography, language, people (and demographics), politics, law and customs, even its virtues and faults.

Seller Inventory # 014358

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islandia (First printing)
• Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, New York
• Publication Date: 1942
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good