ARMAGEDDON: A TALE OF LOVE, WAR, AND INVENTION

Book Description

Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers,. [1898]. title page printed in orange and black, original decorated red cloth, front and rear panels stamped in black, spine panel stamped in black and gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed.. A bright, clean, very good to near fine copy. (#110007). First edition. Future war novel depicting an Anglo-American victory over the rest of Europe in a highly destructive war caused by European imperialism. "An Anglo-American alliance is established to rule the world until the 'lesser breeds' are capable of ruling themselves. This provides one of the most jingoistic statements of Anglo-Saxon supremacy during the period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-168. "Oddly enough, Waterloo has only adapted, with the most overblown language and development, a dime novel of the Frank Reade, Jr. type, to a more adult novel, comic Irishman and all. Almost unreadable." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2307. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-158. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 265-67. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 787. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 199. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 223. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 205. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 117. Bleiler (1978), p. 203. Reginald 14902. Wright (III) 5815.

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