DER MENSCHHEIT HOCHGEDANKEN. ROMAN AUS DER NÄCHSTEN ZUKUNFT. Berlin, Wien, Leipzig: Verlag der "Friedens-Warte," n.d., [1911]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-431 [432: blank] [433-440: ads], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), original decorated light olive cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained gray, gray endpapers. First edition. An antiwar novel by Suttner (1843-1914), an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist and winner of the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize, set in a future "Age of Flying" in which the "Rose Order" brings about world peace. Translated into English by Nathan Haskell Dole as WHEN THOUGHTS WILL SOAR: A ROMANCE OF THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE (1914). The author published an earlier, very influential, antiwar novel, "DIE WAFFEN NIEDER! (Dresden: E. Pierson, 1889). Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 44. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 73. Bleiler (1978), p. 189. Reginald 13879. Kretzmann, The Pre-War German Utopian Novel (1890-1914), Ph.D. diss., Brown University, May, 1936, p. 216. Lexikon I, 253-5. Bloch (2002) 3084. A clean, tight, very good plus copy. (#136767).
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