The White Battalions.

First and only edition of this scarce novel imagining a war between the European powers in which ecological disasters are weaponized. White (1859-1935) was a prolific author of speculative and science fiction. His best-known works were the six "Doom of London" stories which recount a series of catastrophes afflicting the capital. His later fiction was strongly influenced by the First World War. This work is relatively scarce institutionally. It is held in the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK; the universities of New York and California in the US; and Queen's University in Canada. Octavo. With 3 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original green pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white. Wear to spine ends and corners, spine lightly toned, a handful of marks to cloth, endpapers and edges foxed, else internally clean: a very good copy.