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WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946). A Modern Utopia. London: Chapman and Hall, 1905. 8°, frontispiece and 6 plates by Edmund J. Sullivan (half-title browned, frontispiece with short marginal tear). Original red cloth gilt, top edge gilt (a few small soil marks to spine, corners a little rubbed). PRESENTATION COPY TO F.M. HUEFFER (half-title inscribed, "F.M. Hueffer from H.G. Wells April 13 1905").
FIRST EDITION of this vigorous satiric novel, highly praised by Henry James on his return from his American tour in 1905. During the early years of the new century, the Hueffers frequently met with H.G. Wells and his wife, Amy Catherine, usually known as "Jane". Both families had bicycles (as emerges from Wells's letter in lot 164). Saunders (I, p. 130) describes Wells as "another of Ford's most important literary friends, someone he would work into his fiction, and return to in his reminiscences. It was his discussions with Ford that helped shape Wells's sense of the difference between his own journalistic and discursive fiction and that of the impressionist and formalist moderns like James, Conrad and Ford himself: 'and what an omniscient man he is too!' Wells marvelled". Wells Society 25.
FIRST EDITION of this vigorous satiric novel, highly praised by Henry James on his return from his American tour in 1905. During the early years of the new century, the Hueffers frequently met with H.G. Wells and his wife, Amy Catherine, usually known as "Jane". Both families had bicycles (as emerges from Wells's letter in lot 164). Saunders (I, p. 130) describes Wells as "another of Ford's most important literary friends, someone he would work into his fiction, and return to in his reminiscences. It was his discussions with Ford that helped shape Wells's sense of the difference between his own journalistic and discursive fiction and that of the impressionist and formalist moderns like James, Conrad and Ford himself: 'and what an omniscient man he is too!' Wells marvelled". Wells Society 25.
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