Author: Stevens, Rowan; Stirling, Yates; Henderson, William J.; Walsh, G. E.; Munroe, Kirk; Spearman, F. H. - Contributors
Title: The BATTLE For The PACIFIC
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. 1st edition (Bleirer, p. 186; Clareson 724; Reginald 00940; Smith B-347). Pale green cloth, stamped in dark green, with pictoral onlay to front board. Printed buff paper dust jacket. x, [2], 237, [1] pp. Frontis & 7 inserted plates on coated paper. 12mo. VG (slt lean/front hinge just starting, 2" at top)/VG (age-toning/some modest edgewear & chipping/old tape repair only ). An anthology of stories, wherein "the most ingenious visions of war are sketched with a vividness and dramatic force which absorb the fancy .. They are all fantasies, pure and simple .." [dj blurb]. Clareson tells us the lead story "centers upon the 'remarkable chemist,' Adams, whose inventions help defeat the Japanese after they seize Honolulu and Pearl Harbor." Remarkably prophetic, 4 decades prior to December 7th.

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