[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] ENGLAND, George Allan (novel); SLOAN, John (illustrations)Biblio.com
The Golden Blight
1916Best.-Nr. 88025New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers 1916. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; mauve cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 89-3502pp. Though the title page credits it to C.D. Williams the frontispiece and four black & white plates of illustrations are signed by John Sloan. Gentle sunning and some light dust-soil to spine neat early owner's ink name and tiny label at upper front pastedown with a small faint splash mark to upper corners; Very Good with the spine titling somewhat brighter than usual. "In The Golden Blight 1916 an early example of modern science fiction a physicist whose sympathies are with the proletariat in their opposition to World War I invents a machine which from any distance can reduce gold to ash. Despite the villainous attempts of the capitalists and their kept government to prevent him he eventually attacks even the gold in the United States Treasury Building in his effort to bring a stop to the war. When the financiers of the world gather in the Treasury's vaults to observe as one of them has predicted the reconstruction of the ash back into its original form the metal kills the financiers wrecks the Treasury Building and leaves for wiser posterity a Caesar's Column of gold bodies and masonry. Freed of their servitude to gold which as the physicist explains represents capitalism the people of the world immediately declare peace and vote in the Cöoperative Commonwealth" Rideout pp.59-60. REGINALD 04906. The H.K. Fly Company Publishers unknown
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