Samuel Butler's satirical novel follows a traveller into an imagined society whose unfamiliar customs expose the contradictions of his own world. This Jonathan Cape Travellers' Library cloth copy is a 1929 reprint.
Condition: Used blue cloth hardcover without dust jacket. Spine and boards show fading, rubbing, marks and worn edges/corners. The publication-history page has handwritten additions, browning, creasing and a discoloured rectangular patch. Later handwritten dates are not publication statements. Full interior condition has not been verified.
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Type: FICTION
Category: BOOKS, CLASSICS, FICTION, HARDCOVER, LOC022, SAMUEL BUTLER, SATIRE, TRAVELLERS LIBRARY, USED, VINTAGE
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