THE RAID OF DOVER: A ROMANCE OF THE REIGN OF WOMAN: A. D. 1940. London: King, Sell, & Olding, Limited ... Portsmouth: Holbrook & Son, Limited, 1910. Octavo, original pictorial red cloth, stamped in black and gold. First edition. In the remainder binding issued as part of "The Coronet Library," with the Home & Colonial Stores "compliments" label affixed to the front pastedown. Women get the vote and England falls victim to the German menace. A future war novel with advanced weaponry. "Anti-socialist dystopia." - Sargent, p. 148. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 38. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 14. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 375. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 148. Bleiler (1978), p. 75. Reginald 05511. Mild stain to front cover, a very good copy. (#138643).
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