ARMAGEDDON. Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, frontispiece (map of Nicaragua), cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1898 Rand, McNally edition. New introduction by Richard Gid Powers. Future war novel depicting an Anglo-American victory over the rest of Europe in a highly destructive war caused by European imperialism. "An Anglo-American alliance is established to rule the world until the 'lesser breeds' are capable of ruling themselves. This provides one of the most jingoistic statements of Anglo-Saxon supremacy during the period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-168. "Oddly enough, Waterloo has only adapted, with the most overblown language and development, a dime novel of the Frank Reade, Jr. type, to a more adult novel, comic Irishman and all. Almost unreadable." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2307. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-158. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 265-67. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 787. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 199. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 223. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 205. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 117. Bleiler (1978), p. 203. Reginald 14902. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#144422).
Price: $85.00
"First Printing, June 1976" on copyright page.