WOLFE, Bernard

Limbo. A Novel

New York: Random House, (1952). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover, with foil-stamped decorations in colors; dustjacket; 438pp. Small spot of abrasion at upper edge of rear board; mild ageing to endpapers; still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), bright and whole with a few small closed tears at extremities, VG+.

Future dystopia, set in 1990 following a Third World War. "...A fierce attack on 20th century civilization and its constant attempts to find utopia through excision of perceived evils" (Lewis, Utopian Literature in the Pennsylvania State Libraries, p.212). NEGLEY 1208.

Price: $200.00

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