(#110007) ARMAGEDDON: A TALE OF LOVE, WAR, AND INVENTION. Stanley Waterloo.

ARMAGEDDON: A TALE OF LOVE, WAR, AND INVENTION. Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers, [1898]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-259 [260: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, inserted frontispiece (map of Nicaragua), 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. 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. A bright, clean, very good to near fine copy. (#110007).

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