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William Heinemann, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1930. No Edition Remarks. 370 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Binding is loose. Boards have noticeable rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends and heavier sunning to spine.

First edition hardback, beige/brown cloth cover, brown embossed lettering on cover and spine; interior very good, clean, unmarked pages with deckled edges. Hardback good with minor bumps on corners, crown of spine has 1/4" tear, heel of spine turns inward. No dj. Please email seller if you would like additional photos. Books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a clean box.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Very Good. 1930. First USA Edition. Hard Cover. 5.5" By 7.75" Tall' Wear to extremities. 328 pages. clean and tight. .

William Heinemann, 1930. Hardcover. Good. 1930. First Edition. 370 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Heinemann, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are worn and marked.Internally clean.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: William Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Low, David. In dust jacket. Light wear to the spine tips; jacket shows edge wear, a 6 in closed tear, tape strengthened on verso, creased front panel. A bright, intact, four color wrap around jacket by David Low. True first edition. Mr. Parham is a university don with right-wing politics who dreams of finding a rich benefactor to finance a review he can edit. He thinks he has found such a man in Sir Bussy Woodcock, a "crude plutocrat" who makes money at anything to which he puts his hand. In an attempt to foster this acquaintance that goes on for six years, Mr. Parham finds himself involved in séances that summon a Master Spirit from the beyond. This entity occupies Mr. Parham's body, and commences to inspire a political movement (the League of Duty Paramount) that overthrows the British government in a coup d'état. One of Wells' satirical novels. Sir Bussy Woodcock was a recognizable… Read More

London: William Heinemann LTD, 1930. First edition . Hardcover. Good +. First Edition. Moderate wear to cover and along spine. Foxing to fore-edge. All-in-all-a nice first of a hard to find Wells. S4C

NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1930. 1st American edition; "Mr. Wells has an ironic, amusing and amazing vision of the next world war.". dj w/chipping, sm tears, in mylar; owner's name; 328 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by David Low. 12 vo; 1.5 Pouinds.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. tan clloth, brown lettering, no dust jacket, 328 pp first US edition spine slightly cocked covers worn on the edges Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London, Heinemann, 1930.. 370pp. 8vo. Original red boards. Previous owner name on ffe. A very good copy.. First edition.

William Heinemann,, 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. William Heinemann, London 1930 1st Edition. 8vo. 370pp. Illus by David Low. Hardcover. No dj. Small marks to boards. Prev owner's ex-libris label on fpd. Binding firm.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Autocracy of Mr. Parham - His Remarkable Adventures in This Changing World.

H. G. Wells Library, 2016. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.76 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. 1st edition . Hardcover. good condition; bookplate on front pastedown . David Low. 370p., illus. Illus. w/ 10 double-paged cartoons.

London: Heinemann, 1930. Book. Illus. by Low, David. VG++, Wear, Bookplate, Foxing. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Satire. Jacket illustration and 10 double page black & white illustrations by David Low. JACKET: Spine is heavily brownied; rear illustration has some foxing; front illustration is remarkably bright. Expanded condition report/scan on request..

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Hardcover. very good. 1st American Edition. 1p.l.,[vi],328pp. Small Octavo in original brown cloth and yellow endpapers. Brown lettering and rule decoration on boards. Slight whitish discolouration to bottom of boards. With light bumping to ends of spine and corners. Red top edge, others uncut. In dust jacket with slight fading (especially to spine), chipping along edges, some soiling, with several small closed tears, wear and creases. Inner corners of jacket trimmed. Plates from 10 illustrations by David Low. 3 lines in pencil re Low illustrations on front free endpaper. very good The first US edition of the book. The first UK edition is 108 in Wells Society "The story tells how a history don at Oxford falls asleep during a seance and dreams he had become Lord Paramount of the Empire. Among the characters is a thinly-disguised caricature of Winston Churchill.". 1930

WELLS, H.G. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham. His Remarkable Adventures in the Changing World. Illustrated by David Low. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1930]. First edition. A fine copy.

London, UK: William Heinemann, 1930. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Low, David. First edition, first printing. 370pp, plus four double spread monochrome plate illustrations, all by David Low. in original red cloth boards, blind rules on front panel, gilt titles on spine, publisher's windmill motif blind stamped on rear panel. 12mo. Boards slight rubbed on corners, a little rubbed and rounded at spine tips. Text block edges a tad toned. Glue residue marks on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust jacket, also by David Low, a little chipped and nicked at edges, minor shelf wear on verso. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodard-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A dystopian fantasy in which an Oxford don is possessed by a Fascist who overthrows the Government and starts a war against the United States.