(#137426) THE MAN WHO DREAMED RIGHT. Holt-White.
THE MAN WHO DREAMED RIGHT ...

THE MAN WHO DREAMED RIGHT. London: Everett & Co., 1910. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-319 [320]. original light blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold and black, pictorial paper inlay affixed to front panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Science fantasy novel about Mymms, a humble British clerk who, while dreaming, can foresee the future. Ultimately, on the eve of a world war over who will possess him, he dreams something so horrible he cannot speak about it and several nights latter, while the world waits to know if there will be peace or war, he dies in his sleep (naturally, or by the hand of his guardian?). The American President is a caricature of Theodore Roosevelt. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 115. Bleiler (1978), p. 102. Reginald 07367. Some scattered foxing to front endpapers, half title and title leaves and edges of text block, a near fine, bright copy. (#137426).

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