1913 Portland Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

First edition. Very scarce. Signed by the author in pencil to the front endpaper, dated September 1913. With a portrait frontispiece and the odd in-text illustration. Noted for his non-fiction works on the Utopian potentials of his home region and the Pacific Rim, this piece casts the author's speculations into the form of a genuine Utopia. In the novella, we follow Edward Bellamy in a Portland that has been transformed by technology into a socialist paradise. Source: S.F.E. (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Written by Jeff. W. Hayes, an American entrepreneur who introduced the telegraph to Portland, Oregon, in 1882