A Forecast of the Great War 
 
Frederick Bligh Bond. 
 
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1919. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Small bookseller sticker to the inside of the rear board. Soiling to the top edge of the text block, foxing to the edges of the text block. Dust jacket has a piece missing from the crown of the spine and a tape repair near the foot. Book is very good, jacket is good.
 
"Among them appears one of masterful aspect, who speaks to us under the name 'Imperator.' At other times the communications are signed 'The Watchers.' 
They speak to us of things greater than the Abbey, of interests more comprehensive of the general history of our race. In particular, they have, for many years past, hinted at the coming of a world-crisis, of war and revolution, leading to the dawn of a new era of man, and the promise of greater power and greater glory for the race, when the materialism which has hitherto stunted his spiritual growth and thwarted his best efforts shall be cast off, and he shall claim lordship over Matter."