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THE DUMB GODS SPEAK
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-ix [x] [1-3] 4-304 [305-309: list of Oppenheim's books] [310: blank], jacket art by Bip Pares, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in blueish green. First edition. Spy thriller with science fiction elements. The Philippines have been granted independence by the United States and Japan attempts to invade, a super science device disables the entire Japanese fleet. This is where the story begins. The story includes advanced television devices and a sort of EMP weaponry. An international spy organization wishes to turn Russia and China into constitutional monarchies in the hope of avoiding a world war. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 72. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 241. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 170. Bleiler (1978), p. 151. Reginald 11011.
ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-307 [308-312: ads] [313-314: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, yellow end papers, top edge stained black. First U. S. edition.
THE GREAT PRINCE SHAN.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1922. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-303 [304: blank] [305: ads] [306-308: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. A tale of political intrigue set in the near future (1934). England has relaxed militarily, seemingly secure with membership in the League of Nations. Germany, Russia, Japan and China plot against them. China has secretly built a fleet of 1000 advanced airships which can be used to conquer any country in the world. The world is on the brink of a new world war and China's brilliant leader, Prince Shan, uses his power and diplomacy to establish a new world order. Filmed in 1924 with Sessue Hayakawa. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1725. Bleiler (1978), p. 151. Reginald 11016. Hubin (1994), p. 616.
MR. LAXWORTHY'S ADVENTURES.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-305 [306], original light brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Collects twelve stories. Hubin, pp. 615-618. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 79.
MR. MIRAKEL.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-279 [280-282: blank], original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue, fore edge rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. A second world war lasts nine years and ends with violent global natural catastrophe that wreaks destruction of many parts the Earth. Before this, a mysterious Mr. Mirakel, an extremely wealthy man, has fled to a remote land with a small group of chosen people, the "land of Mirakel," akin to a Shangri-la. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1726. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 52. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 237. Bleiler (1978), p. 151. Reginald 11022.Hubin (1994), p. 618.
THE STRANGER'S GATE.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-328 [329-333: ads] [334-336: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. A setting in the Balkans concerning an important bauxite mining operation of which the Germans are interested in. Hubin (1994), p. 618.
THE WRATH TO COME.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-355 [356: blank] [357: ads] [358-360: blank], original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Germany, Russian and Japan ally together and plot against the United States in 1950. In this day the United States, while the world's richest country, is mostly is a state of disarmament. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1726. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 52. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 237. Bleiler (1978), p. 151. Reginald 11022.Hubin (1994), p. 618.
THE OSTREKOFF JEWELS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Mystery set in Russia at the time of the revolution.