THE WAR TERROR

Reeve, Arthur B. (1880-1936)

Published by Harper, New York, 1915

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New York: Harper, 1915. Later printing issued from first edition plates. Fine hardcover w/o dustwrapper as issued. Inserted frontispiece by Will Foster (1883-1953), depicting radium experiment. Fantastic detective shorts with Craig Kennedy. Inventions; devil worship; psychic curse; eugenic bride; electro-magnetic super-gun. Many of the Craig Kennedy books are listed for science fiction and supernatural content in Bleiler I and Reginald fantastic checklists. Craig Kennedy once was America's most popular detective in books, magazines, and silent films, and no US author of any type sold better in the UK. In WWI, Reeve was asked by the American government to create a scientific lab for use against spies. He made it the most advanced in any nation of his day. This surprising fact, atop his character's popular reception, is that he inspired the first police labs such as are today taken for granted. Not much read today, nor as highly esteemed as many of his contemporaries; even so, his position in criminist literature and early s-f cannot be regarded slight.…

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Title
THE WAR TERROR
Author
Reeve, Arthur B. (1880-1936)
Publisher
Harper, New York
Publication year
1915
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
No Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

Granny Artemis Antiquarian Books

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Granny Artemis is two older women selling off our lifetime collection bit by bit. Jessica has been collecting and selling books for decades, with a focus on Victorian adventure and fantasy.

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Lost race novels, Westerns, Vintage literary horror and fantasy, Victorian adventure and fantasy

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