THE WAR IN THE AIR, and Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted. ML# 5.2, BROWN LEATHERETTE, Spring 1918, 50 Titles Listed

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SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. BROWN LEATHERETTE. Book has Spine #1; C4 Title Page of 50 Titles; BL logo on front; marbled endpapers of green-brown. STORY: The War in the Air is a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialized and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts in this case, the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I. The novel's hero is Bert Smallways, a "forward-thinking young man" and a "kind of bicycle engineer of the let's-'ave-a-look-at-it and enamel-chipping variety.". N° de ref. del artículo 601

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