FEUER IM OSTEN. ROMAN. Leipzig: L. Staackmann Verlag, 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-317 [318: blank] [319-320: ads], original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained orange. First edition. A yellow peril adventure novel in which warlord Daibur-Chan has brought much of Asia under his control and now threatens Europe with super weapons. He is defeated by German globetrotter Rolf Sideck, his sister Middy and his mountain climber friend Hans, but it is apparent that soon the "fire in the East" will ignite again. Gustav Renker (1889-1967), an Austrian born German-language journalist and author, was one of the most popular writers of mountain and home novels in Germany during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His fantasy novels consisted of works set in the alpine mountains, exotic places (Asia; Africa), Atlantis and in the hollow earth. A striking feature of Renker's fiction were his pacifist views, sentiments rather unusual for German-language fantasy writers of the first half of the twentieth century (for example, in his DER HEROLD DES TODES [1923], war is condemned as "insane frenzy of patriotism and hatred"). Brandt, Der deutsche Zukunftsroman 1918-1948, p. 366. Lexikon 2, pp. 216-7. Bloch (2002) 2550. Not in Nagl. Spine lean, else a fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and two corners. (#138708).
Price: $350.00
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