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Wells, H.G.. The Passionate Friends : A Novel. Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, UK, 1913.
Price: US$10.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 356 pages + 8 page publisher's catalogue. Only date on the book is 1913 which is at the foot of the title page - there is no other printing history. No dustjacket. Forward lean to binding. Clean green hardback binding with blind, impressed decoration to front board and spine - dulled gilt-coloured titles to spine and front. Wear/frays to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning/spotting to flyleaf and back free endpaper o/w pages clean and tidy.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
WELLS, H. G.. The Passionate Friends. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913, 1913.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Light offsetting to endpapers and soiling to backstrip, else a good copy or better in original green gilt and blind stamped cover. According to Nabokov, one of the most under-rated novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. The Passionate Friends. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1913.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth witrh gilt stamped lettering and blind stamped designs; top edge gilt. The volume is bumped and rubbed on the spine ends and corners, the gilt lettering is considerably faded, and the top gilt is moderately soiled. The interior has light offsetting to the endpapers and is in very good condition.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G.. THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS. MACMILLAN, London, 1913.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: COLLECTIBLE FIRST BY H.G. WELLS. EX LIB, HINGES WEAK. NAME ON ffep. 336 pages + numerous pages of ads incl Macmillan 1913 catalogue at the end. Scans on request. Thanks.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
H. G. Wells. The Passionate Friends. MacMillan and Co. Limited - London, 1913.
Price: US$33.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A clean copy with just the usual toning 356 clear and bright pages with no markings and additional publishers adverts to the rear. School library paste on label on inside cover. Original green cloth with embossed design. Gilt titles to the spine and front cover, boards are a little bumped on the corners and spine edges and are faded and rubbed but are intact and firm. A small tear on inside back cover, binding is firm but could be readdressed. Overall a nice solid First Edition. Usual toning and shelf ware should be expected.
Seller: Newtown Rare Books, Dublin, Ireland
WELLS, H. G.. The Passionate Friends. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1913.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue Binding. Octavo. Original blindstamp decorated green cloth over boards, gilt lettering at front cover and spine, gilt top edge. Very good, no dust jacket, cloth spine wrinkled, bumping to spine ends and corners, some spotting and fading to cloth, pages agetoned, few signatures sprung.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G. (1866-1946). The passionate friends. London, Macmillan, 1913.
Price: US$38.67 + shipping
Description: Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains overall, reasonably well-preserved overall. Physical description: 356 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: English fiction; Roman anglais; Novels; 20th Century Literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Wells, H.G. (1866-1946). The passionate friends. London, Macmillan, 1913.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains overall, reasonably well-preserved overall. Physical description: 356 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects: English fiction; Roman anglais; Novels; 20th Century Literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. The Passionate Friends.. London: Macmillan., 1913.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 356 pp. Very Good, Green Decorative Gilt Cloth with minor stains, sun-fading, edge wear, & rubbing; spine somewhat slanted; minor shelf wear; some stains on end papers & edges of text block. Provenance: John Ruyle, his bookplate & previous owner's bookplate inside cover. First Edition.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G.. The Passionate Friends: A novel. Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1913.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 356, [12 adverts]. Vertically ribbed sage green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, decoratively blind-stamped. Top edge gilt. Spine gently sunned, wear and bruising to extremities, joints rubbed. Endpapers toned and foxed, pencil POI to ffep, occasional pencil scoring to margins, a few marks, gently shaken. Else, clean. A robust copy. Dedicated, mysteriously, to "L. E. N. S.": possibly, it has been suggested, Elizabeth von Arnim, who had become Wells' lover in 1910. The novel had been serialised in The Grand Magazine (March-Nov. 1913). Despite Wells later referring to it as "gawky," the novel went on to be adapted twice for the British screen, first, in 1922 by the Stoll Film Company and again in 1949 by David Lean. It is also notable as the first example of Wells' notion of an "open conspiracy": his "scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries".
Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United Kingdom
WELLS, H. G.. Passionate Friends: A Novel.. Macmillan, London, 1913.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: [viii] 356 pp. + 12 pp. ads. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Wells 49. Very light wear to extremities; bookplate; very good.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G.. The Passionate Friends: A Novel. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1913.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (19.75cm); vertically-ribbed sage green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt, and decorative elements blind-embossed on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; [viii],356 + 12pp publisher's ads. Light wear to spine ends, gentle sunning to spine, with a few faint rubbed spots to cloth and upper edge of textblock, and some offsetting to endpapers; contents clean, with hinges sound; Very Good+, lacking the rare dustjacket. A novel first published serially in The Grand Magazine between March-November, 1913. WELLS 49.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. The Passionate Friends. Macmillan and Co., Limited., London, 1913.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition, later printing of H. G. Wells' poignant novel, bound in the publisher's original cloth. This novel follows Stephen Stratton addressing a letter to his eldest son as he reminisces on the great love of his life. It was written following the death of Wells' father.Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, known for covering various different genres but primarily remembered for his contributions to the field of science fiction, with works including 'The Invisible Man', 'The War of the Worlds' and 'The Time Machine'.A first edition, later impression, with eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with a little bumping to the head and tail of the spine and some slight loss to the cloth of the front board. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
H.G. Wells. The Passionate Friends (inscribed copy). macmillan, 1913.
Price: US$1300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wells, H.G. The Passionate Friends. London, MacMillan and Co., 1913, 1st ed., (8),356,4,7(advert.)p., orig. giltlettered and blindst. cl., t.e.g. = The first edition, with an AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION MONOGRAMMED "H.G." to E.A. BENNETT: "E.A.B. who misses three things in it [monogram]." G.H. Wells, Bibliography 49.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
WELLS, Herbert George. The Passionate Friends: A Novel. MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1913.
Price: US$2576.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: AUHTOR'S PRESENTATION COPY. WELLS, Herbert George. The Passionate Friends: A Novel. London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1913. £2000 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, original green vertically ribbed cloth, spine and front board with gilt lettering and vine motifs in blind, top fore-edge gilt. Light wear to joints, corners and spine caps. A Presentation copy, affectionately inscribed by the author to his friend Daisy Blumenfeld: D. B. / from Herbert George / and someday we will win at tennis. Even though we could not find much information on Daisy Blumenfeld, it is known that she was a good friend of Wells and they corresponded frequently. She appears in The Correspondence of H.G. Wells, edited by David C. Smith and Patrick Parrinder (London, 1998).
Seller: Symonds Rare Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$45000.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. The [GB] Shaw Copy. First edition, first issue with all the correct points. A fine copy in the publisher's patterned sage green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. [very minor offsetting to the endpapers & a small stain at the outside bottom of the front pastedown - still a remarkable fresh copy & an extraordinary example, Inscribed by Wells with a flourish for Charlotte Shaw & George Bernard Shaw through her with good humored advice as follows: "Mrs. Shaw / with warm regards / HGW / and do make GBS try a novel" - The inscription in rebuttal to Shaw having earlier admonished Wells to try writing a play. Green calf clamshell protective presentation case, gilt decorated & lettered at the spine. THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS was produced as a movie by Stoll in 1923, again by David Lean in 1948 (script by Eric Ambler), & again by Paramount in 1952. Wells Soc. 51; Hammond A9. "Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells were both dedicated to reshaping the world: as Shaw commented in one letter to Wells, " The first volume of [Karl Marx's] Capital (all I ever read of it) changed the mind of Europe; a thing we two have been trying to do all our lives." 1 Although (apart from some satiric fantasies) Back to Methuselah is Shaw's only direct attempt to picture what this change might mean, H. G. Wells was very much in the futures business with almost a third of his voluminous writings being explorations from the present into visionary alternatives. Titles like The World Set Free or Men Like Gods offer much the same ecstatic hope for change as Shaw's "metabiological Pentateuch"; and a comparison between the ways in which each envisaged the future is illuminating. It encapsulates the extremes of the turn-of-the century revolutionary movement in which they were both involved, as well as throwing the nature of Shaw's beliefs into high relief by the contrast. The links between the two writers, both of whom aspired to be the intellectual leader of the new century, are well known: their common membership in the Fabian Society, and the Wells forced resignation after publicizing the scandal of his affair with Amber Reeves (at that time the secretary of the Society) in his novel Ann Veronica, their extensive correspondence from at least 1901 right up to just three days before Wells' death in 1946, which shows that each read the other's work, even sending drafts of some pieces to one another. What has not been as fully realized is the degree to which both Wells' novels and Shaw's plays were written as direct responses to each other's work. There are enough overlaps or cross-references to qualify several of their works as a serious literary conversation, and significantly, the subject of their artistic argument was specifically their idea of the perfect society, and the means through which it might be." - Innes, C. D. "Utopian Apocalypses: Shaw, War, and H. G. Wells" SHAW The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies - Volume 23, 2003, pp. 37-46, Penn State University Press.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada