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WELLS, H. G : The Research Magnificent

Macmillan. 1915

First edition. Bookplate, inner hinge visible. Original green cloth, tooled in blind, sl. faded with sl. worn extremities. Date stamp to rear paste-down o/w contents clean and freash.

WELLS, H. G : THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT

MacMillan, London, 1915

First Edition, Green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. First issue of ads. Superb copy with both the cloth and gilt very bright and with a distinguished provenance bearing on the front pastedown the bookplate of John Quinn (1870-1924), arguably the most noted art collector in America in the early part of the twentieth century and early patron and promoter of a number of the most important writers of the century including Eliot, Joyce, and Yeats. This was lot 10777 in the Quinn sale of 1924., cloth, Absolutely Fine, crisp copy with superb provenance

WELLS, H. G : The Research Magnificent

MacMillan And Co., Limited, London, 1915,

8vo., 199 x 127mm., pps. 406 + 10 adverts. Publisher's impressed olive green cloth, gilt titles. Internally and externally clean and sound. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by the Author. The story of schoolmaster's son who persuades himself that he has to live "nobly and thoroughly" and is eventually killed trying to stop soldiers firing on a crowd. Geoffrey H. Wells

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