Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible History

Cleveland, OH: The Utopia Publishing Company, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 326pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Extremities rubbed. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners of the boards. 1/4 inch losses from the cloth at the spine ends. Hinges going. Front endsheet has a former owner's ink stamp and bookplate, a date in pen, and a bookseller's ticket. Text block cracked several times. 2" closed tear to the bottom edge of p. 109. Negley 1212. Reginald 15615. A future-history narrative, involving major changes to American society during the 1910s. Wooldridge's work looks forward to a time when a standing army is no longer needed to fight wars, and instead is put to work building a utopian city in Northeastern Utah and California. The author's name for the Utah settlement is Fort Goodwill.