WELLS, H. G.

£17,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Works. A handsome set of the Atlantic Edition. Signed limited edition, deluxe issue, number 711 of 1,050 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of Volume I and released for distribution in America, of which 50 were reserved for presentation. A further 620 sets were released by T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd, in Great Britain and Ireland, 20 of which were reserved for presentation. Wells contributed new prefaces especially for this edition, which was also issued in a blue morocco binding, with no priority between the two colours.1.21m

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