Published in 1929, this classic social-science-fiction novel is a tale of the future in which we are now living: the angry rise of the Third World, supported by communism and desperately resisted by capitalist countries. The story closes in what is now the faintly distant past, 1941, when at the novel's dramatic climax North America wins a great sea battle in the Caribbean, defeating the world-conquering hordes of the Mongol Karakhan, the "Red Napoleon," which have invaded Canada and penetrated the Eastern seaboard of ...
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Published in 1929, this classic social-science-fiction novel is a tale of the future in which we are now living: the angry rise of the Third World, supported by communism and desperately resisted by capitalist countries. The story closes in what is now the faintly distant past, 1941, when at the novel's dramatic climax North America wins a great sea battle in the Caribbean, defeating the world-conquering hordes of the Mongol Karakhan, the "Red Napoleon," which have invaded Canada and penetrated the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Gibbons's prophetic view includes the beginning of the Second World War with a lightning thrust into Poland, the unification of China, worldwide depres sion, and the astonishing prediction of the rise of the Third World and the con flict over white supremacy. In a brilliant Afterword to this new edition, John Gardner notes that time has proven Gibbons right, that this is a book "to bring above-ground into light"; it is, he states, a "landmark that slipped by unnoticed."
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Add this copy of The Red Napoleon to cart. $50.33, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Popular Library.
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Near Fine. First edition. Darkening in the gutters, as always seems the case with this title, name on front fly partially erased, else near fine lacking the dust jacket. A title that resurfaced in the *Lost American Classics* series, a novel about a Tarter-Mongol tyrant leading his hoards through Europe, into Canada and invading the United States, written by an important American war correspondent who lost an eye at Chateau-Thierry and won the Croix de Guerre.
Add this copy of The Red Napoleon to cart. $85.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1929 by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith.
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Very good(-) 475 pages, frontispiece, illustrated in black-and-white, 8vo, black cloth (very light spot-staining on front cover). New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. Limited Edition, No. 9 of 250. Boldly inscribed across the entire half-title page: To Rafe and our better acquaintance in memory of [author] Donn Byrne. Sincerely, Floyd Gibbons."
Add this copy of The Red Napoleon (Lost American Fiction) to cart. $91.43, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Southern Illinois University P.
Add this copy of The Red Napoleon (Lost American Fiction Series) to cart. $110.88, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Popular Library.
Add this copy of The Red Napoleon to cart. $175.00, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1929 by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith.
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1929, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith
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Edition:
First edition
Publisher:
Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith
Published:
1929
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
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Attractive bookseller's ticket; 1950 Christmas gift inscription; slight discoloration to the cloth; tight and sound in an attractive jacket with some minor edgewear and tiny chips at extremities. 475 pp. 8vo, In Bleiler.
