Winter Autograph, Art and Sports Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2015
Belamy 4pg ALS letter in ink 5"x8 in which he says he is sorry to hear about the sickness that affected the recipients family and that he is "trying to complete a book, but has 9 delays" and that "he hoped to get it out in the Fall and in a month or so should have the final version"...."I do not set dates on work"... "Faithfully and Affectionately Edward Belamy". A uncommon autograph and fine content and condition.
Edward Bellamy (1850 –1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, was first published in 1888. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America".It was the third-largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day. "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement". Owing to its commitment to the nationalization of private property, this political movement came to be known as Nationalism, not to be confused with the political concept of nationalism.
Edward Belamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887)
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