Future War

Item #11905 A.D. 2000. Alvarado M. Fuller

Alvarado M. Fuller

Item 11905A.D. 2000

Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1892. Later Hardback. A very good copy. Seems to be a later edition. Currey notes that the first is 1890 on the title page, with later printings being undated. So it's a little confusing where this fits in (title page dated 1892(, particularly as the rebind.....

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Item #11694 An Invasion-Sketch. Anonymous

Anonymous

Item 11694An Invasion-Sketch

London: Luke Hansard, nd [1804]. First / First. A near fine copy. An early future war piece 'An account of Napoleon's successful invasion of Britain and entry in London, together with details of his proclamations. First published in the 'Anti-Gallician' in 1804.' [Locke, Spectrum 2/5]. "...depicts a national catastrophe, where.....

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Item #10772 The Russia’s Hope: Or Britannia No Longer Rules the Waves; Showing How the...

Anonymous [Alexsandr Konkevic] [trans. Charles James Cooke]

Item 10772The Russia’s Hope: Or Britannia No Longer Rules the Waves; Showing How the Muscovite Bear Got at the British Whale

London: Chapman & Hall, 1888. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. The Russians batter the British using advanced weaponry. Rebound in plain cloth with leather label. Some marking to the boards, looks like a bit of bleaching. Marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Internally neat with a collector's.....

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Item #13657 L'Invasion Noire. Capitaine Danrit, Driant Emile Auguste Cyprien

Capitaine Danrit [Driant Emile Auguste Cyprien]

Item 13657L'Invasion Noire

La Guerre au Vingtieme Siecle

Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1913. Paul de Semant. Second Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Good condition. A heady mix of future war, invasion literature and colonial fantasy, seeing an Islamic Africa rise up against Europe. Bound in contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards. This is the first illustrated edition, preceded by.....

Price: £175.00

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Item #11151 The Red Peril. Coulson Kernahan

Coulson Kernahan

Item 11151The Red Peril

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1908. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A future (?) war novel with Germany invading Britian. Spine a touch faded, owner's inscription in two places. Occasional foxing.

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Item #11910 Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale. Douglas Brown, Christopher Serpell

Douglas Brown & Christopher Serpell

Item 11910Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale

London: Faber & Faber, 1940. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Postulating what would happen should Hitler win the war. Lacking the jacket. Tanning to the spine and a little bumping, some wear to the edges, neat inscription from a former owner reading 'a lot of nonesense' (read.....

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Item #10376 The Broken Trident, The Navigators w/ The Harbour of Death. E F. Spanner

E.F. Spanner

Item 10376The Broken Trident, The Navigators w/ The Harbour of Death

London: Williams & Norgate, 1926-1927. First / First. Hardback. A very good set of books, not a trilogy but Spanner's primary science fiction works. Each a future war tale and each inscribed by the author. Some markings to the boards, some offsetting to the endpapers and a little foxing to.....

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Item #12034 Private Selby. Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace

Item 12034Private Selby

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1912. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. One of a number of books in the invasion genre to predict WWI. No jacket. In nice shape, with a little bumping to the spine tips, some foxing and toning to the leaves. 16pp ads to.....

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Item #10775 The…Red To-Morrow. Emerson C. Hambrook

Emerson C. Hambrook

Item 10775The…Red To-Morrow

London: The Proletarian Press, 1920. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author. A somewhat prescient novel postulating a second world war in the 1940s and the subsequent communist takeover. Spine tanned, some bumping to the tips, soiling to boards, some splitting towards the centre. Splitting.....

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Item #10215 The Emperor of the Air. George Glendon

George Glendon

Item 10215The Emperor of the Air

London: Methuen, 1910. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A future war / aerial combat type novel. Spine a touch faded, some bumping to the spine tips and corners. 48pp ads. Owner's stamp and address on front endpaper. A touch foxed to the prelims.

Price: £150.00

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Item #11798 Prince Pax. George Viereck, Paul Eldridge

George Viereck & Paul Eldridge

Item 11798Prince Pax

London: Duckworth, 1933. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. "Science fiction novel in which the ruler of a tiny European country by becoming possessed of certain advanced technology is able to force peace upon the world." [Locke, Spectrum, I:219]. Jacket quite toned to the spine, chipping and wear to.....

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Item #11282 In a Conning Tower: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare. H O. Arnold-Forster

H.O. Arnold-Forster

Item 11282In a Conning Tower: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare

London: Cassell, 1891. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. A little spotting to the wrappers, a little wear to the spine, but overall a nice copy.

Price: £75.00

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Item #11229 The North Sea Mystery. Harry Edmonds

Harry Edmonds

Item 11229The North Sea Mystery

London: Ward Lock & Co., 1930. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. In the rare jacket and inscribed by the author. A future war novel, with the background of long range torpedos attacking the navy. Jacket is a little grubby to the spine with tape reinforcement to the.....

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Item #10333 The Riddle of the Straits. Harry Edmonds

Harry Edmonds

Item 10333The Riddle of the Straits

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1931. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author. A future war novel. No jacket. Some rubbing to the spine tips. Some foxing to the edges.

Price: £75.00

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Item #11187 The Riddle of the Straits. Harry Edmonds

Harry Edmonds

Item 11187The Riddle of the Straits

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1931. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author. A future war novel. In the jacket. Some rubbing to the edges and a little creasing. A nice copy.

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Item #11531 The Invision of New York or How Hawaii was Annexed. J H. Palmer

J.H. Palmer

Item 11531The Invision of New York or How Hawaii was Annexed

London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. "Future war with Spain and Japan over Cuba and Hawaii." A little rubbing to the cloth, some bumping to the spine tips, toning to the spine and a few marks to the cloth.

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Item #13399 Peggy the Aeronaut. J L. J. Carter

J.L.J. Carter

Item 13399Peggy the Aeronaut

London: Everett, nd [1910]. First / First. Paperback. Very good condition. Wrappered issue. It's unclear if there was an earlier hardback issue, but the book is quite uncommon in any form. "…a Future War story which hints at a possible Pax Aeronautica" [SFE, Clute] A little light edgewear, spine is.....

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Item #11035 The Three Days of Terror. J S. Fletcher

J.S. Fletcher

Item 11035The Three Days of Terror

London: John Long, 1901. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Britain gets destroyed by terrorists. 8pp catalogue to the rear. A few marks to the cloth, and bumps to the spine tips. Owner's name to the endpaper. Paper a little tanned.

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Item #10709 The Siege of London: Reminiscences of 'Another Volunteer'. J W. M

J.W.M.

Item 10709The Siege of London: Reminiscences of 'Another Volunteer'

London: R. Hardwicke, 1871. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. A rare item, a sequel to the Battle of Dorking of sorts. A very good copy considering it's a 150-year-old pamphlet. 64pp with one page of ads (ads also on the wrapper reverse). Spine mostly absent and chipped.....

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Item #11463 Ichabod. James Blyth

James Blyth

Item 11463Ichabod

London: John Milne, 1910. First / First. Hardback. A very good book, in a good jacket. A future war novel, with the UK destroying Germany using thought reading, but also getting rid of all the Jews who align with the Germans, so a mixed bag as far as prescience goes.....

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Item #11458 The Peril of Pine's Place: A Story of an Averted Invasion. James Blyth

James Blyth

Item 11458The Peril of Pine's Place: A Story of an Averted Invasion

London: F.V. White, 1912. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A future war novel with the UK narrowly avoiding an impending socialist invasion. Lacking the dustjacket, some fading to the spine, and softening to the spine tips and corners. James Blyth (1864-1933) is best known in the genre.....

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Item #11464 A Yankee Napoleon. John F. Macpherson

John F. Macpherson

Item 11464A Yankee Napoleon

London: John Long, 1907. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Quite uncommon. A future war novel, featuring two scientists. One of the mad variety because he uses his inventions for evil. John Clute's SFE synopsis is best: "two Scientists - one a Mad Scientist who uses his Inventions.....

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Item #11904 Culmination. John Furnill

John Furnill

Item 11904Culmination

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1932. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy in the jacket. Future War novel 'in which the consequences of applying a device designed to communicate with the dead lead to disaster' [SFE, Clute]. Gift[?] inscription to the front endpaper. A little edgewear to the.....

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Item #9925 The Lost Provinces. Louis Tracy

Louis Tracy

Item 9925The Lost Provinces

London: Pearson, 1898. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy - the sequel to An American Emperor. A future war novel. The second in a trilogy of sorts. A little bumped but largely in nice shape.

Price: £40.00

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Item #9908 With Wings Outspread. Marc Gouvrieux

Marc Gouvrieux

Item 9908With Wings Outspread

London: Heinemann, 1916. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A near future satire on WWI, written in 1916 and set in 1920. Slight lean, with a little bumping and pushing. Ink price on the endpaper and pastedown.

Price: £75.00

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