Islandia

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in a Very good plus dust jacket.  Endpapers depicting maps in as new condition. Pages clean and bright. Green text block intact. Dust jacket is bright with some wear to spine top and to bottom lower right. Tight binding. Light soiling to cream colored boards. A very nice copy.

A highly detailed Utopian fantasy that Wright labored over for years, only to have it posthumously published. The introduction is by Leonard Bacon, the afterward by Sylvia Wright, the author's editor & daughter. Generally considered a "utopian" novel, Islandia describes the journey and adventures of John Lang, a once very proper American college student. Austin Tappan Wright did not just write a novel of adventures in a strange land and civilization; Islandia is a country with a history, towns, cities and streets, its own geography, language, people (and demographics), politics, law and customs, even its virtues and faults.