THE COMING CONQUEST OF ENGLAND. Translated by J. H. Freese. New York: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. London: Geo. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1904. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-384, original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in red and black, spine panel stamped in red. First edition in English, U.S. issue. The U.S. edition was printed from the Routledge plates. Translation of DER WELTKRIEG -- DEUTSCHE TRAUME (1904). A future war novel in which England is defeated by "the three great allied nations," Germany, France and Russia. One of the earliest post-1900 stories of a future war, "... a highly optimistic and amateurish attempt to rearrange the world to suit German pretensions." - Clarke, Voices, p. 120. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1625. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 596. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 30. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), pp. 120-1; 231. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 166. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 847. Bleiler (1978), p. 148. Reginald 10686. See Bloch (2002) 2278. Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, a clean, very good or better copy. (#168563).
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