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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First Trade Edition/Author's Edition. hardcover. Good+. Small 8vo:. Walter Crane. First Printing. Printed by University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. Bound in publisher's original crimson buckram with gilt lettering and gilt stamping to front board, illustrated by Walter Crane, title to cover in white, spine panel stamped in gold, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in yellow-green. [i-v] vi [7] 8-278 [279-280: ads] [1] pp; 2-8: reviews of Morris's The House of the Wolfings. A cornerstone of science fiction and utopian literature. This is a stated, "author's edition;" but it was actually an unauthorized printing taken from its original 1890 printing in COMMONWEAL. Reeves & Turner published the first true authorized trade edition in 1891, with additional content. Morris's Kelmscott Press printed is edition in 1892/3, "... NEWS FROM NOWHERE is not, as has so often been said, a turning back to an earlier kind of civilization, but…

A utopian novel that describes an ideal society in a future England.