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H.G. Wells, 1909
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Tono-Bungay
H.G. Wells, 1909
WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946). Tono-Bungay. London: Macmillan, 1909.
Fine copy of the first edition in book form, preserving the rare dust jacket. Tono-Bungay traces the rise and fall of a chemist's apprentice whose uncle becomes a patent-medicine tycoon. "With its sharp social satire and panoramic sweep, [it] revives and reinvents the 'Condition-of-England' novel of Dickens and his contemporaries", and was the last of Wells's novels "which drew heavily on his painful experiences in childhood and young manhood" (ODNB). Second issue, with 8 pp. of ads dated “2.09.” Hammond A4.
Octavo. 8 pp. of ads. Original cloth, printed dust jacket (a little toning and mild soiling, a little very minor creasing and edgewear, a few short tears); custom box.
H.G. Wells, 1909
WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946). Tono-Bungay. London: Macmillan, 1909.
Fine copy of the first edition in book form, preserving the rare dust jacket. Tono-Bungay traces the rise and fall of a chemist's apprentice whose uncle becomes a patent-medicine tycoon. "With its sharp social satire and panoramic sweep, [it] revives and reinvents the 'Condition-of-England' novel of Dickens and his contemporaries", and was the last of Wells's novels "which drew heavily on his painful experiences in childhood and young manhood" (ODNB). Second issue, with 8 pp. of ads dated “2.09.” Hammond A4.
Octavo. 8 pp. of ads. Original cloth, printed dust jacket (a little toning and mild soiling, a little very minor creasing and edgewear, a few short tears); custom box.
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