The Alien Menace: A Statement of the Case

Third, revised and enlarged edition.  xviii, 238pp, with plate illustrations, some in colour.  Blue cloth-covered boards with black titles on spine.  8vo.  Cloth is a little worn, gently rubbed and rounded around corners and spine ends and joints, some marks and minor indentations.  Browning to text block edges and some tanning and spotting to endpapers and first and last few leaves.  The frontispiece and one further plate are detached but present, the latter now creased and bumped on lower edge.  First signature loosening.  Loosely inserted is a two-page flyer from the publisher promoting the second edition of this work.

A now hard to find polemic work reflecting the fascist views of the 1930s on keeping Britain for the British.  In the foreword the author says ‘the difficulties through which our country has been and is passing are not due to one cause but to many… And one of the greatest of these is the Alien trouble…which not only seriously retards our moral and material progress, but even threatens our existence’, summing up the tone of this work.  Arthur Henry Lane (1868-1938) was a member of the Unity Band Party and a founding member of the Militant Christian Party.  An Army Officer, serving in South Africa from 1899-1902, he was author of several anti-Jewish and anti-immigration books.   A poor condition copy of this now scarce work: we would not usually offer a book in this condition but it is a hard to find title and this copy, perfectly readable, may serve to fill a gap in a collection until a better can be sourced and afforded.