1918 The World Aflame

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

The very scarce signed first edition of The World Aflame, written by American playwright and political activist Julius Hopp. Published by Theo. Gaus' and Sons in 1918, the same year that the First World War ended.

 in only two institutions in the UK. 

In the publisher's original pictorial cloth, with a signed inscription from Hopp on the front free end paper.

Julius Hopp was a significant figure on the New York theatre scene during the early twentieth century, being a member of the Shakespeare Theatre of New York, and also the president of the socialist Progressive Stage Society.

This particular play, inspired by the First World War, is a scathing attack on Kaiser Wilhelm II and dedicated to allied soldiers fallen. With the Americans joining in 1917, it would not be long after the play publishing that the war would end.