THE RED NAPOLEON
by Gibbons, Floyd
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Soiling to cloth, a very good copy in a good dust jacket with soiling to jacket, small chips to upper corners, wear to spine end
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1929]. First edition. Soiling to cloth, a very good copy in a good dust jacket with soiling to jacket, small chips to upper corners, wear to spine ends, closed tears at upper and lower flap edges, upper front panel, and to spine panel and front spine panel edge, age-darkening to spine panel. (25440). Octavo. pp. [1-8] 1-475 [476: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], several battle diagrams in the text as well as a fold-out plate opposite page [464] with diagram of decisive battle in Caribbean, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained orange. A yellow/red peril future war novel whose main action is set in the U.S.S.R., London and Mexico during the period of 1932-1936 as a communist Tartar-Mongol nearly succeeds in subjugating the world, only to be defeated at the Battle of Jamaica. "Because of the writer's intimate knowledge of war reportage, one of the best imaginary war novels, despite wooden characters and an unconvincing American victory." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 879. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-21; (1981) 2-31; (1987) 2-34; and (1995) 2-42. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 337. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749, p. 238. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 90-91. Bleiler (1978), p. 81. Reginald 05938. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1385.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25440
- Title
- THE RED NAPOLEON
- Author
- Gibbons, Floyd
- Book Condition
- Used - Soiling to cloth, a very good copy in a good dust jacket with soiling to jacket, small chips to upper corners, wear to spine end
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1929]
- Keywords
- SF
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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