IT NEVER COULD HAPPEN OR THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION. New York: Coventry House, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-191 [192: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], title page printed in red and black, original brown cloth, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. First edition. "This political fantasy uses the dispersal of the Veterans' 'Bonus Army' in July 1932 as its point of departure. The skeletal narrative is presented as a future history published in 1982, THE VETERANS' REVOLUTION OF 1932, whose first-person narrator is General Elmer Hicks, formerly commander-in-chief of the U.S. forces." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 613. The book has two title pages, the actual one and the fictional one (THE VETERANS' REVOLUTION ...). The main text of the book looks as if it's set in 18 pt. type, making this story a novella of about 25,000 words length. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 196. Bleiler (1978), p. 152. Reginald 11048. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 2732. Paper spine label rubbed and age-darkened, small price sticker on front free endpaper, endpapers a bit darkened, two small private owner's bookplates on paste-downs, one upside down on the rear paste-down, a very good copy. Scarce. (#130635).
Price: $45.00
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