'42 to '44 a contemporary memoir de h g wells (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. 212 pages.

8vo., First Edition; green buckram, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip lightly faded at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip and upper edge with one small loss on rear panel. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 212 pp. Bound in unclipped original green cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper, which has edge wear and chips and loss at head and tail of spine and some staining on rear wrapper. A little wear to extremities and some sunning at head and tail of spine; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by diagram, The Informative Content of Education. A late H. G. Wells title, 'a kind of autobiography of ideas combined with comment on the flooding events of recent years,' developed from the author's Experiment in Autobiography. 'It gives the matured views of a philosopher summing up his position after a lifetime of work and study.' Part I covers The Heritage of the Past. The Psychology of Cruelty, and includes 'Socialism dawned in Kent' (John Ball). Part II is How we face the Future. The Appendix is the Thesis for the Doctorate of Science recently accepted by the University of London and A Memorandum on the uniqueness of events written specially for Sir James Jeans. Wells states the book 'is published at a price that will keep it out of the hands of any but qualified and serious students.' (Catalogue of the H. G. Wells Collection in the Bromley Public Libraries, 183). WELLS PHILOSOPHY LIT. NON-FICTION PHILOSOPHY 20TH CENTURY WELLS.

First Edition. Very nice copy in slightly soiled dust-wrapper H.G. Wells Society Bibliography 154.

First Edition. Very nice copy in slightly frayed dust-wrapper H.G. Wells Society Bibliography 154.