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J. A. Mitchell

J. A. Mitchell

The Last American.  [6], 152 pp.  Illustrated with a colour fronsipiece and 7 coloured plates plus numerous black-and-white images, decorations by Albert D. Blashfield.  8vo., 195 x 145 mm, bound in publisher’s decorated blue cloth.  New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1902.

 

Deluxe Edition after the first edition of 1889.  A prescient work of fiction in which the ‘Mehrikan’ people are nearly extinct, beset by unrestricted immigration and catastrophic climate change.  Profusely illustrated with images of a late nineteenth century United States in ruin.  A very fine copy. 

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