World Brain

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. , Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned, stamp on front pastedown, . owner name on front free endpaper.. 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. xx, 194pp. Blue cloth binding. The prolific author's speculations about a future world knowledge base, akin to today's Internet and Wikipedia.; 8vo 8" -… Read more about this item

First American Edition. Navy blue cloth boards in very good condition. Gilt author, title and publisher on spine. No dust jacket. A collection of essays and addresses. Front board blind stamped author's initials. Pages unmarked, clear print, and age-toned. Top edge tinted blue. Fore edge bottom edges rough cut. 194 pages A still relevant study of how to avoid dictators, oligarchic parties… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Wells' outline for a an encyclopedia, available to all within a short distance of their home, that would provide the knowledge needed, at no cost, to build an educated and informed populace. xx, 194 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Orange cloth cover - no dustjacket. Hardback. Thoughts by H. G. Wells taken from three lectures he gave about a single world educational community - a precursor idea that has predicted the internet. 130 pages. Some shelf rubbing.

London: Methuen & Co, 1938. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, in protective sleeve, some chippiing and soiling), orange boards, black spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked but light tanning.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. Limited 1938. 12mo. xvi, 130 pp. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering to spine. Minor marks to front board. Top panel of front endpaper excised. No ownership names. Internally clean. Wells, displaying his typically immense foresight, sets out his vision of the World Brain, a global font of authoritative knowledge that would be free to all… Read more about this item

World Brain by H. G. Wells, first edition, ex Royal Naval War Libraries, small ink stamp on first page, some sun bleaching to spine and a few marks on cover but still a solid binding, no foxing to pages so good condition, this work is thought to pre-empt the concept of the internet in the sense of disseminating free knowledge… Read more about this item

London: Methuen and Co Ltd, 1938. First UK edition of this book, 130 pages in bright clean condition just some light browning to inner edge of last blank page, small foxing spots to outer edges of pages not inside. No dustwrapper. outer boards are bright with just a small amount of discolouration to extreme edges and top and… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co. Limited, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed. Inscribed by H. G. Wells to a previous owner on the page at FFEP, and including a 'With the Compliments of the Author' card from the publisher pasted at FFEP. Orange cloth with black spine titling, very good with light edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket… Read more about this item

1938. Methuen & Co. London. 1938. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Orange cloth, black lettering. Small slim 8vo. Boards are lightly soiled. Light foxing to endpapers o/w a sound copy.

The MIT Press, 8/3/2021. paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Very Good Condition and Unread! Text is clean and unmarked! Light shelf wear to cover from storage. Has a small black line or red dot on bottom/exterior edge of pages.

H. G. Wells Library, 2016-09-22. Paperback. Used: Good.

MIT. Used - Like New. Fine. Paperback. 2021. Originally published at $24.95.

MIT. New. Fine. Paperback. 2021. Originally published at $24.95.

H. G. Wells Library, 2016-09-22. Paperback. Used:Good.

READ BOOKS. New. Special order direct from the distributor

H. G. Wells Library. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Paperback / softback. New.

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark