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Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 718pp, illus., heavy soiling to cover, owner's stampto tp, slight shelfwear.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine heavily darkened. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 718 pages
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Description: Book Condition: good. Clean inside pages. Tight binding. Sharp cornered. Crayon mark on front end page. Lightly soiled covers.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bookplate on front endpaper. 718 pages
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This book has a brown cloth cover with black lettering and black stripes. Cover is soiled, mostly at spine; browning of inner pages, pen scribble on front end paper, rear hinge is crack, front hinge is weak, wear and soil. Illustrated with black-and-white photos, this book is a very introspective autobiography of the author H.G. Wells. 718 pages, including index; approx. 6"x9".
Seller: Popeks Used and Rare Books, IOBA, Oneonta, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York, 1934; gray cloth covered boards; edges and back strip toned; edges scuffed; corner wear; dust jacket missing; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; end papers toned; musty odor; Interior is clean and unmarked; 707 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Solidly bound. No rips or tears. Cover and spine slightly stained (See image). Some pages show aging, and foxing inside front covers. Otherwise a beautiful book with illustrations throughout. Published October, 1934. Reprinted November, 1934.
Seller: Swaney and Associates, Traverse City, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The covers have moderate wear and light soiling and the spine is slightly darkened and soiled. Both front and back end papers and all pages up to and including the title page have foxing. The pages have yellowed and some corners are creased. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Emily's Books, Brainerd, MN, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. Experiment in Autobiography. MacMillan, New York, 1934.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: MacMillan, 1934. First Edition. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Clean beige cloth boards (very light soiling to back board--few tiny faint spots) with black lettering on cover and spine, black line border decoration. No wear to boards. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. 718 pgs. with index. Frontis photograph of H. G. Wells, additional photographic plates. Nice copy of this book.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cream cloth boards with black lettering. Spine is sunned, but darker. Boards and spine are soiled with a couple of small stains. previous owner's name in ink on inner front board. Frontispiece intact. B&W Photographs. Pages are toned. Printed in November 1934
Seller: Adams Shore Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing, November 1934 Signed by previous owner. DJ is chipped and torn but the major portion of the dramatic art deco DJ is in good shape, DJ in new Brodart archival jacket. Book is uniformly darkening but no significant flaws.Includes: illustrations, index. Sewn binding; tan cloth over boards; plates. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. Shipping from North Carolina. Dedicated to delighting our customers. Delivery confirmation provided on all domestic orders. Happy to ship to international locations. Consider expedited shipping - just a little more moves your purchase a lot faster. Digital photos available on request for any book.
Seller: Cameron Park Books, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Wells, H G. Experiment in Autobiography. MacMillan & Co Ltd,, New York, 1934.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FIRST AMER. EDITION. Cream colored cloth with black lettering. Cloth covers age toned with spine darkend from handling. Black discoloration at the gutter on the back. Front & rear endpages age toned. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G.. Experiment in Autobiography. Macmillan, New York, 1934.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Reprint. Thick octavo. 718pp. Single volume. Pages and cloth age-toned, cloth soiled, spine darkened, good only, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Description: VG-/none, covers soiled, water splash evident on bottom front cover, corners bumped, back hinge starting
Seller: May Day Books, Los Altos Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Description: 718p.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black lettering on grey covers . 8vo, 718pp.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. Experiment in Autobiography. Macmillan, New York, 1934.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second printing, Nov. 1934 (1st Oct. 1934). Bold eye-catching dust jacket. Beige cloth stamped black. Illustrated with sketches by Wells, as well as photos.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G.. Experiment in Autobiography. Macmillan, New York, 1934.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Very good. Hardcover rubbed at spine ends and corners, spine browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Some shelf wear to jacket, with a chip at footer of jacket spine and some small closed tears around edges. Dedication in pencil on front free endpaper. This is a first American edition, 2nd printing of Wells' unconventional memoir.
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. "Published october 1934" on copyright page. sm4to. 718pp. Light cloth stamped in black. Foredges uncut. Top page edges stained yellow. Spine is sunned some. 1" water spot on top page edges. A little toning to perimeters of endpapers. Previous owners name in pen with words "Don't bother me now I'm too busy dying" "Wells died August 13, 1946" on front endpaper otherwise clean. 6 1/2" x 8 1/4" sepia tone glossy photograph of Wells tipping his hat to New York arriving "on the Washington" for a brief visit - laid in. Stamped on back of photograph: "International News Photos" slug. 235 East 45th Street, New York. Tight. no jacket. Good condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 6.5"x9.5" 718 numbered indexed pages. Tan cloth boards w/black ink letters on front and spine. Book plate inside front cover. Gutter exposure in front hinge. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Faint soiling to boards. Secure ship w/track #. "An Experiment in Autobiography" was first published in 1934. Within it, Wells recounts his childhood, school days, struggle to make money, his eventual literary success, and latter occupation as a prophet of socialism. A fascinating and unique look into the life and mind of this seminal author, "An Experiment in Autobiography" will appeal to all who have read and loved the works of H. G. Wells. Contents include: "47 High Street, Bromley, Kent", "Up Park and Joseph Wells (1827-1910)", "Sarah Wells at Atlas House (1855-1880)", "A Broken Leg and Some Books and Pictures (1874)", "Mr. Morley's Commercial Academy (1874-1880)", "Puerile View of the World (1878-79)", Mrs. Wells, Housekeeper at Up Park (1880-1893)", "First Start in Lifeâ"Windsor (Summer 1880)", et cetera. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author. Goodreads.
Seller: Blacks Bookshop: Member of CABS 2017, IOBA, SIBA, ABA, Argillite, KY, U.S.A.
H.G. Wells. Experiment in Autobiography. MacMillan, New York, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stain on front board. Slightly discoloration on spine and inside boards. Binding is tight. Picture available on request.
Seller: JARE Inc. dba Miles Books, Highland, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: xi, 718 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Reprint. Bookplate; endsheets a little tanned; otherwise fine in a jacket with a stamped price of $ 1.39 on the front flap; shallow chipping at the extremities of the spine, and light use at edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. Experiment in Autobiography. The Macmillan Company, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good hardcover, no dust jacket. First Edition. Minor marginalia (brackets drawn in margins); bookplate on front free endpaper. Front hinge cracked.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (23.5cm). Tan cloth, titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 718pp. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped and slightly edgeworn with small loss at crown of spine, just into printed title, just VG.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A bright first edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with front hinge starting; lacking front flyleaf and dust-jacket; This book is a collection of autobiography essays written by H.G. Wells. Wells explores his life and experiences, both good and bad, in this book. He discusses his family, his education, his career, and his thoughts on society and the world around him. Wells is an interesting and entertaining writer, and his essays provide a comprehensive and fascinating look at his life.; 8vo; 718 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. Experiment in Autobiography. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1934.
Price: US$61.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Name and City Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866). CONTENTS: Chapter The First INTRODUCTORY 1. Prelude (1932) 2. Persona and Personality 3. Quality of the Brain and Body Concerned; Chapter the Second ORIGINS 1. 47 High Street, Bromley, Kent 2. Sarah Neal (1822-1905) 3. Up Park and Joseph Wells (1827-1910) 4. Sarah Wells at Atlas House (1855-1880) 5. A Broken Leg and Some Books and Pictures (1874); Chapter the Third SCHOOLBOY 1. Mr. Morley's Commercial Academy (1874-1880) 2. Puerile View of the World (1878-79) 3. Mrs. Wells, Housekeeper at Up Park (1880-1893) 4. First Start in Life--Windsor (Summer 1880) 5. Second Start in Life--Wookey (Winter 1880) 6. Interlude at Up Park (1880-81) 7. Third Start in Life--Midhurst (1881); Chapter the Fourth EARLY ADOLESCENCE 1. Fourth Start in Life--Southsea (1881-1883) 2. The Y. M. C. A., the Freethinker; a Preacher and the Reading Room 3. Fifth Start in Life--Midhurst (1883-84) 4. First Glimpses of Plato--and Henry George 5. Question of Conscience 6. Walks with My Father; Chapter the Fifth SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON 1. Professor Huxley and the Science of Biology (1884-85) 2. Professor Guthrie and the Science of Physics (1885-86) 3. Professor Judd and the Science of Geology (1886-87) 4. Divagations of a Discontented Student (1884-1887) 5. Socialism (without a Competent Receiver) and World Change 6. Background of the Student's Life (1884-1887) 7. Heart's Desire; Chapter the Sixth STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING 1. Sixth Start in Life or Thereabouts (1887) 2. Blood in the Sputum (1887) 3. Second Attack on London (1888) 4. Henley House School (1889-90) 5. The University Correspondence College (1890-1893) 6. Collapse into Literary Journalism (1893-94) 7. Exhibits in Evidence; Chapter the Seventh DISSECTION 1. Compound Fugue 2. Primary Fixation 3. Modus Vivendi 4. Writings about Sex 5. Digression about Novels; Chapter the Eighth FAIRLY LAUNCHED AT LAST 1. Duologue in Lodgings (1894-95) 2. Lynton, Station Road, Woking (1895) 3. Hetherlea, Worcester Park (1896-97) 4. New Romney and Sandgate (1898) 5. Edifying Encounters. Some Types of Persona and Temperamental Attitude (1897-1910) 6. Building a House (1899-1900); Chapter the Ninth THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD 1. Anticipations (1900) and the "New Republic" 2. The Samurai--in Utopia and in the Fabian Society (1905-1909) 3. "Planning" in the Daily Mail (1912) 4. The Great War and My Resort to "God" (1914-1916) 5. War Experiences of an Outsider 6. World State and League of Nations 7. Word Education 8. World Revolution 9. Cerebration at Large and Brains in Key Positions 10. Envoy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Wells, H. G.. EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Macmillan, New York, 1934.
Price: US$67.51 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. No dust jacket. Soiling to spine.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition beige cloth boards with black front cover and spine lettering. Includes List of Illustrations and Index. Illustrated with numerous drawings, black-and white photographic plates and a black-and-white photographic portrait frontispiece plate. The spine and board edges are sun darkened as are scattered areas of the covers (see photographs). The volume is exceedingly tight and square and all pages are in fine condition. The copyright page states "Published October, 1934". ".a series of questions asked of life, and the answers given in the intimate experiences of one of the great livers of our era." ".the best histories of the break-up of the nineteenth century are to be found in the novels of H.G. Wells; and, indeed, before the appearance of this "Experiment," I had often thought myself that the most interesting document upon the end of one century and the beginning of another might well be the spiritual biography of the author of those novels in which he put so much, but never all, of himself. Well, here it is, and it is certainly one of the richest, and most curious, shrewdest and frankest, intensive and extensive, books published for many a year. H.G. Wells, it must be remembered, is more than a man; he is a symbol. He is the exponent of that lower class which has always produced self-made men, but in our own times suddenly overflowed the caste system and, in its successful representatives, began to take charge of our affairs. Most of our great men on the up-and-up from the farm, or the semi-slums (where Wells lived as a child), have been money-makers, absorbed in the conquest of power over things and the owners of things. But H.G. was not like that. From his meager beginnings, with servant for mother and a gardener who became a cricket professional for father, through his six different attempts to get himself started in the world, in environments which changed, like scenes in a historical movie, from a grimy lower-class London to association with the most interesting people in his time, Wells was obsessed with an interest in how the thing worked. He wanted to know how you got educated, how you made love, how you handled marriage while you still kept falling in love, why the world talked science and failed to practice it, how a state was organized, why states fought each other, how a poor man could make himself secure without selling his liberty - every kind of question which a keen intelligence might ask of our times. And that is what this fascinating book is, a series of questions asked of life, and the answers given in the intimate experiences of one of the great livers of our era. Here is the secret of a sudden capture of a great public again and again by this great journalist who never achieved a style, never was quite sure what that meant, never expected any of his books to "live." Whereas the American gentleman and scholar is concerned with the difficulties of his kind in a tumultuous age of democracy, the English journalist has helped to make the democracy, loves it, grew upon it, wants nothing better than to help guide it toward a world made safe for intelligent, free-loving, peace-loving, waste-hating H.G. Wellses. Do not, however, think [the book] is an essay on politics or another world history of one man's time. It is closer to Pepys than to Gibbon, though not much like either. Indeed it can best be described as Wells himself describes it in the first chapter, as the adventures of a brain. This brain had a body, sickly at first, then adventurous and amorous. This brain was handicapped by being (so the author says) flexible but second-rate, and by being born into a station from which only hard work or excessive ingenuity could escape. And so one gets a story, which for chapters at a time reads like of Wells's own novels, broken by reflections upon the absurdities, stupidities, cruelties, and inconsistencies of the world the brain began to discover for itself." -H. Canby
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: October 1934.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Wells, H. G.. Experiment in Autobiography. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Very Good, with a Very Good- price clipped dust jacket. Foxing, toning, minor chipping and edge wear to jacket. Previous owner bookplate on inside front cover. Foxing and toning throughout interior, more strongly to end papers. Text is unmarked. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. 9 1/2" h x 6 1/2" w.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Thick octavo. 718pp. Pages and cloth edges lightly age-toned, pages 391-407 neatly creased through text, very good in a good only edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with spine sunned.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Dallas Collectible Books, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$186.94 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Light foxing on spine and text block edges.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. MacMillan, New York, 1934.
Price: US$252.94 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Rear hinge starting.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.