REPRIEVE FROM PARADISE.
New York: Gnome Press Inc., [1955]. Octavo, green cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. A post-atomic war dystopia in which the now static authoritarian "Hierarchy" ruling the Earth has encouraged human reproduction, resulting in overpopulation and the extinction of most insects and animals. [Reference: Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 192. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 255]. Age darkening to text block, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (35814). Item #35814
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