WAR IN SPACE: A GRAND ROMANCE OF AIRCRAFT WARFARE BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY. London and Felling-on-Tyne, New York, and Melbourne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1913. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-339 [340: printer's imprint] [341-344: ads], publisher's decorated gray cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition in English. Translation, by G. H. Marchat, of LES TORPILLEURS DE L'AIR (Paris 1912). Future war in Europe involving France and Germany, story largely focused on espionage and romance. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 42. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War 1763-3749 (1992), p. 234. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 89. Bleiler (1978), p. 80. Reginald 05837. Cloth lightly worn at edges and dust soiled, front free endpaper missing, some scattered foxing, a sound, good copy. (#174188).
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