Seestern (pseudonym of Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff). ARMAGEDDON 190- by Seestern [pseudonym]. Authorized Translation by G. Herring. With an Introduction by Admiral the Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, G.C.B. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1907. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] ix-xxiii [xxiv] 1-402 [403: printer's imprint] [404: blank], original pictorial dark gray cloth, front panel stamped in gray, red and white, spine panel stamped in red and gray. First edition in English. Translation of '1906' -- Der Zusammenbruch der alten Welt (1906). Account of an imaginary world war set in the near future that exhausts the European nations and shifts the balance of power to the United States and Russia. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1991. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 34. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749 (1992), p. 232. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 191. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 06254. 5 mm closed tear in cloth at crown of spine panel, front free endpaper adhered to front paste-down, else a very good copy. (#20638)