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Wells H. G.. A Year of Prophesying. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1924.
Price: US$15.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Patches of damp-fading to boards, but not spine, and the book is not affected internally. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. 272 pages. Comprises 55 articles being one year of the author's journalitic writing.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Wells, H G. A YEAR OF PROPHESYING. T Fisher Unwin, London, 1924.
Price: US$18.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 272pp Foxing to front and back of pages
Seller: Left On The Shelf (PBFA), Kendal, United Kingdom
H.G. Wells. A Year of Prophesying (1st ed). T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1924.
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards have some wear, light toning to spine. Content has light toning. No DJ. Owner signature to ffep.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Wells, H. G.. A Year of Prophesying. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1924.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. T. Fisher Unwin, 1924; "First published 1924" stated, no later printings indicated; 272pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; moderate amount of wear, rubbing to blue cloth boards; minor fading to spine, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout. No dust jacket. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. A Year of Prophesying. T Fisher Unwin, London, 1924.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. Octavo. Blue cloth. Publisher matter laid in. End papers tanning Very Good +.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
WELLS, H. G.. A Year of Prophesying. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1924.
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Description: 352pp. 8vo, blue cloth, edges of corners very lightly worn and bumped. London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1924).
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. A Year of Prophesying. T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1924.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed & Signed on the prelim, Isabel, with love H. G. in his characteristic hand; Second Impression; Blue cloth with gold spine title; A very good copy with free endpapers tanned & foxing on all edges with a bit in margins 1st & last 5 leaves; 8.75"x5.5"; 272 pages.
Seller: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Wells, Herbert George. A Year of Prophesying. T. Fisher Unwin, London [Londres], 1924.
Price: US$497.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "London [Londres], T. Fisher Unwin, 1924. Couverture rigide, Reliure de toile bleue de l?éditeur, titre au dos, encadrement à froid sur le plat supérieur. Mors fendus en tête, frottements sur les coiffes, les coins et les coupes. SECOND TIRAGE. Recueil de 55 articles parus pour la première fois entre le 22 septembre 1923 et le 20 septembre 1924. Wells y évoque, entre autres sujets, le futur de l'Europe, la notion de race, l'éducation, le communisme, et la diffusion de la société industrialisée moderne. Avec un ENVOI DE L'AUTEUR À GEORGES DUHAMEL : "To George Duhamel with fond memories from H. G. WELLS" Ses souvenirs de voyage aux États-Unis, Scène de la vie future,parurent en anglais sous le titre America's Menace ;il y évoque une certaine appréhension quant à l'essor du capitalisme que Wells aurait partagées ; on en connaît d'ailleurs un exemplaire de l'édition français avec envoi à Wells. Lorsque Wells renonça à la présidence du PEN club international, Duhamel disputa longuement sa position à Jules Romains, qui finit par l'emporter. STATED SECOND PRINTING. Collection of 55 journalistic articles which were first published between the22nd of September, 1923 and the 20th of September, 1924. Wells addresses, among other things, the future of Europe, race, education, Communism and the spread of modern industrialized society. INSCRIBED to French writer Georges Duhamel: "To George Duhamel with fond memories from H. G. WELLS" Georges Duhamel's travel memoir Scène de la vie future, translated to English under the title America's Menace, expresses anxieties about the rise of capitalism that H. G. Wells would have shared; a copy of the French edition was presented to him. After H. G. Wells retired as president of the international PEN club, Duhamel lost a bitter fight for his position to French author Jules Romains. Publishers' blue cloth binding, gilt title on the spine. Embossed frame on the upper board. Joints split towards the head of the spine. Ends of the spine, corners and board edges rubbed."
Seller: Librairie le pas sage, PARIS, France
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: One of 20 sets for presentation from an overall edition of 620, this is letter e and Wells has written (Little e), signed by H.G. Wells in volume one, and additionally inscribed by Wells in volume one to his lover Elizabeth von Arnim, "To Little e H.G." With her bookplate to all but two volumes. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H. G. Wells, then later married Frank Russell, elder brother of the Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. Though known in early life as May, publication of her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to her friends and finally even to her family. She is now known invariably as Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pen nameÂAlice CholmondeleyÂonly for the novelÂChristine, published in 1917. According to Katy Roiphe's Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939, 2008, she "arranged for her married lover (H.G.ÂWells) to visit her Swiss chalet bedroom by means of a hidden entrance". The affectionate inscription confirms that, even after their affair had ended, they remained close friends. Octavo, 28 volumes. Bound in original publishers cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt. Frontispiece illustrations including the author portrait in volume one. In near fine condition. An exceptional association. H.G. Wells is best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne. His most notable works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.