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WELLS, H. G.
First and Last Things. A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life.
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908
Stock code: 59184
Price: £750 Currency Conversion
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author "To Mrs Sidney Webb from H. G. Wells". Beatrice Webb, along with her husband was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and reformer. In H.G. Wells's The New Machiavelli (1911), the Webbs, as 'the Baileys', are lampooned as short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to front cover and spine gilt. Covers and edges rubbed, spine tips lightly worn, bookplate of George Macaulay Booth to pastedown.
