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MERCIER Louis-Sébastien. The year two thousand...

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MERCIER Louis-Sébastien]. The year two thousand four hundred and forty. A dream if ever there was one. London, 1772; in-8 of XII p., 402 p., bound in honey-coloured half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine, title in black letters, chipped. This book may have been the origin of the film Farenheit 451 because in 2440 almost all books were burned as dangerous to public order and preventing social progress. - Small worm holes in the first few leaves.