WELLS, H.G.
A Year of Prophesying.
New York: The Macmillan Company , 1925.
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"Do men and women generally want a better world than this?": First Edition of H.G. Wells' A Year of Prophesying; From the Library of Christopher Priest
First American edition of this collection of Wells' syndicated newspaper column from 1923-24. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest. Priest’s most famous works include The Inverted World (1974), the interconnected “Dream Archipelago” series, and The Prestige (1995), which was adapted into the 2006 Academy Award nominee film of the same name by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, and Michael Caine. In very good condition, signature to the front free endpaper.
"Of the 55 articles in this volume 54 were written weekly from Sept. 1923 to Sept. 1924 for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate and printed in newspapers throughout the English-speaking world; in London by The Westminster Gazette. The remaining one, "The Future of British Empire," appeared in The Empire Review" (Wells).
A Year of Prophesying.
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