"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
London: George Newnes Limited, January - June 1920. [Literary journal] This volume contains Wells' revised and condensed version of The War of the Worlds with new illustrations. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), bound in publisher's light blue pictorial cloth. Contents clean, prize label to pastedown, binding carefully handled with some minor rubs, gilt to spine a little tarnished. Very good indeed. Also includes an Archie story and others by Wodehouse, The Man in Ratcatcher and others by 'Sapper', The Uncharted Coast by A.C. Doyle, and several other stories and articles among which Lowell Thomas' Life Story of Col. T.E. Lawrence titled The Uncrowned King of Arabia. Item #72592
Listed in BBC's Big Read (200 Best Novels) [2003].
Price: £350.00
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