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A nearly fine copy with light wear at spine ends and corner tips.Memorial edition, stated four hundred and twenty-fourth thousand, of Edward Bellamy's classic utopian, socialist science fiction novel.
This copy is signed on its front page not by the author, but by two other famous people.
Exlibris and signature of Cyril G. Wates (1883-1946)- an author, mountain climber, and amateur astronomer. Wates was born in Brixton, England, graduated from Worcester Academy in 1902, and immigrated to Edmonton in 1909 where he worked for the City of Edmonton Municipal Telephone System as an engineer. He joined the Alpine Club of Canada in 1916, and climbed more than fifty peaks. He was the first to ascend Mt. Geikie in the Canadian Rockies, named Mt. Minotaur located in British Columbia, south of Geikie Creek, and was responsible for the Alpine Club's book, "Songs for Canadian Climbers". Wates served as president of the Club from 1938 to 1941 and oversaw the construction of a cabin in the Tonquin Valley in Jasper… Read More
