WELLS, H. G.

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The Works. The Atlantic Edition, number 542 of 1,670 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf of Volume 1. Each volume includes a new preface by Wells.In the introduction, Wells is reflective: "Here in these collected volumes are fantasy, fiction, discussion, and stated case, all openly and deliberately experimental, all in essence sketches and trials. This edition is a diary of imaginations and ideas much more than a set display, the record of a life lived in a time of great readjustment rather than of creative achievement."This is one of 1,050 copies from the American issue; a further 620 were published in Britain by T. Fisher Unwin.

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