Wendell Phillips Garrison — The New Gulliver

Jamaica, Queensborough, New York, The Marion Press, 1898 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Wendell Phillips Garrison's satirical lost race satire, with an additional signed dust wrapper. The first trade edition of this work, one of three hundred copies produced.Inscribed by the author to a front blank 'Charles R. Hickox  - W.P.G', dated 1903.With a plain paper dust wrapper, also inscribed by the author to Hickox, and with the additional word 'delivery' in Garrison's hand.A lost race satire in which an American is shipwrecked on the island of the Houyhnhums in the 1870s. A philosophical fantasy and a sequel to 'Gulliver's Travels&apos. In the publisher's original reverse calf backed paper covered boards, with dust wrapper. A touch of fading to back strip, otherwise externally fine. Pencil inscription to a front blank. Small closed tear to head of dust wrapper front wrap, with further closed tear to back strip head. Back strip age toned. Inscription to front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.