DIE ERDE REIßT: TECHNISCHER ZUKUNFTSROMAN

by Albert Burmester

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Bremen, Leipzig, Wein: Henry Burmester Verlag, n.d., 1938 . Octavo, pp. 1-4 5-288, four maps in the text, original cream boards with straw cloth shelf back. First edition. A catastrophe novel concerning the construction of giant hydroelectric plants to generate power by damning the Mediterranean Sea a theme popular in European SF from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century and a massive earthquake that

• Binding: Hardcover

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