DER WELTKRIEG DEUTSCHE TRÄUME. ROMAN. Berlin-Liepzig: Verlag von W. Vobach & Co., [1904]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8-386 [387-392: ads], original pictorial tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, white and black, black coated endpapers, all edges stained red. First edition. A future war novel of the defeat of Britain by "the three great allied nations," Germany, France and Russia. One of the earliest post-1900 stories of a future war, "... a highly optimistic and amateurish attempt to rearrange the world to suit German pretensions." - Clarke, Voices, p. 120. Translated into English as THE COMING CONQUEST OF ENGLAND (1904). Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1625. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 596. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 30. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), pp. 120-1; 231. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 166. Kretzmann, The Pre-War German Utopian Novel (1890-1914), Ph.D. diss., Brown University, May, 1936, p. 214. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 847. Lexikon 1, pp. 200-1. Bloch (2002) 2278. Nagl, p. 250. Faint foxing to cloth, else a nearly fine copy with fine interior. (#133906).
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