Middletown, CT, Weslayan University Press, 2003. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition, paperwraps issue. A "Yellow Peril" novel first published in Australia in 1895. Cautionary Australian novel of an invasion of Australia by Russia using Mongol troops. This edition includes facsimile illustrations taken form the original text. Includes a long historical introduction by Andrew Enstice and Janeen Webb along with notes and a short bibliography [Reference: Blackford, et al., Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, p. 226 (misdating the book 1894). Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09478].