The World a Department Store

Illus. by Harry C. Wilkinson. Lewiston, Maine: Self-published, (1900). Small 8vo. Cloth. xv, 311 p. 1st ed. Wright III, 4138. Sargent p. 63. Negley 899. Lewis p. 143. Light cover wear; else very good. [9914]

"Describes a businessman's utopia based on efficient distribution by co-op department stores, a 'practical' application of Christianity. Peck actually tried this experiment" - Glenn Negley, "American Utopian Literature (1888-1900): An Annotated Bibliography" in "American Literary Realism 1870-1910," Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer, 1971).

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