Search Results: volonor by winship glen b

1 . hardback. Very Good. 1st ed. NY (Seltzer) 1925. Internally a fine copy, but spine very faded.

New York: Thomas Seltzer. Very Good in Good dj. 1925. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [moderately shelfworn, some dust-soiling to top edge, minor staining to fore-edge, one-time owner's ink signature at top of ffep; jacket worn and rubbed, various small tears and shallow chips, spine color-shifted, a few holes along rear hinge, soiling to rear panel]. (endpaper map illustration) Utopian fantasy novel about a young millionaire who forms a new republic on a Pacific island, with many of its ideals and general principles centering around the economic emancipation of women (which will also have the more pragmatic effect of protecting his sister from various suitors who are after her for her money). A contemporary reviewer, apparently unswayed by visions such an egalitarian society, thought it "a tale even more dizzy than is indicated by its yellow and purple paper jacket," that "rises to thrilling heights of battle, murder, and sudden death, and drops sheerly to depths of… Read More