Her Majesty's Minister.

LE QUEUX, William. [1864-1927]

London Hodder and Stoughton. [1901]. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's light blue cloth titled in gilt to a lightly sunned spine, and in dark blue to the front boards. Possibly the Colonial binding, as a pictorial cloth edition with the same sheets has been recorded. Very minor edgewear otherwise a crisp, sharp copy. Very minor spotting to page edges, internally fresh and clean, some leaves unopened. 'William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 London - 13 October 1927, Knocke, Belgium) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-German invasion fantasies The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.'. Item #33412

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