THE PHANTOM ARMY: BEING THE STORY OF A MAN AND A MYSTERY. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1898. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-viii 1-357 [358: blank] [359-360: ads], original bevel-edged dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Uchronia in 1893 in which an adventurer organizes a secret army in Spain and threatens Europe. "The most interesting of his speculative works is THE PHANTOM ARMY (1898), an alternate history story set in 1893, dealing with an imaginary Napoleonic uprising -- a story which, by its very nature, required no scientific innovations." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 114. Day, The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature, p, 69. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 74. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Wolff 5510. Touch of wear to cloth at head of spine panel and lower front corner tip, endpapers and text block (printed on cheap pulp paper stock) darkened, a tight, very good copy. This book is quite elusive in decent condition. (#95570).

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