The Way The World Is Going: Guesses & Forecasts of the Years Ahead by H.G. Wells - 1929

Ernest Benn, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering. The volume is rubbed on the spine (diminishing the gilt intensity of the lettering), bumped on the ends, has some light scttered foxing on the fore-edges, and two small stains on the top edges. The endpapers are moderately darkened, else the interior is in excellent condition.

Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1952. First edition, brown cloth, lacks d/w, 302pp, G+ (sl edge wear, mod soiled, sl foxed prelims and edges and spasmodically throughout contents, sl internal separation at joints and several locations in contents) 26 articles and a lecture

Garden City:: Doubleday, Doran and Company,. 1929. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Dust soiling to cloth covered boards, else good in tan cloth with blue and red lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 324 pages .

Ernest Benn 1928. first edition hardcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good . In Good Dustwrapper. 8vo. - First Edition, first impression in the scarce dustwrapper of a book full of interesting observations and speculations from a master of both. The boards are a little rubbed w/ a small dent to the spine and spine ends bumped. Edges of text block toned w/ some foxing. Offsetting to endpapers and some toning to page margins. The dustwrapper is heavily rubbed and toned w/ some chipping and creasing to edges and corners plus a 2cm tear to top of front joint and small half cm section missing from spine head. xi/301 pages

Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Brown cloth with gilt spine titling, light edgewear, lightly bumped spine ends, spotting to back cover. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket foxed, toned, with light soil to spine; protected in Mylar. Pages foxed to textblock edges (heavily so to top) and to first and last few pages, else clean. Text bright and unmarked.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition. Ernest Benn, 1928; no later printings indicated; [8], 198, [2]pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; front board somewhat bowed; minor wear to edges of black cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout; light foxing, very faint damp-spot on top edge of page block. Unclipped dust jacket chipped and toned over spine, else wear to edges is light; light toning, foxing to panels; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. A very presentable copy of this essay collection, in the very scarce original jacket, designed by Mabel Alleyne. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Ernest Benn Limited. First UK edition published by Ernest Benn Limited in 1928. This is a very good or better copy. The highly illustrative and striking jacket is not clipped. There is a small amount of loss at the top of the spine. There is also a tiny tear to the top left hand corner of the front panel. The top of the back panel has tear that has been repaired to the reverse. along with a small water stain mark to the reverse of the jacket at the bottom of the spine and a tiny tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. The book has a tiny amount of rubbing to the bottom of the spine and a corner tip. Otherwise the book is excellent with clean pages. Overall a very good or better copy. A striking dust wrapper design by M Alleyne showing capitalists on a viewing platform watching men fighting each other below really encapsulates the theme of the book being the author's guesses and forecasts for the future. He attempts to answer key questions of the time including whether armies were… Read More

London: Ernest Benn Limited. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Some insect damage at the inner gutters. Some staining to the spine of the DJ, rubbing at the top of the spine. Signed by Wells on the half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages; Signed by Author .