Search Results: the outline of history volumes i by wells h g

Garden City Books, January 1956. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

NY: Collier. 3 VG HBs. 1922. Green binding, gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Edge wear. .

Garden City Books, January 1956. Hardcover. Good - Cash/No Jacket. **1949 printing! Red hardcovers with blue spines. Gold gilt lettering and detailing to the spine. General surface and edge wear to the cover. The corners have been bumped. Pages show reader and wear. Some discoloration to the bottom edge of the pages. Text appears to be unmarked. The bindings are tight and pages all appear to be secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

A TWO VOLUME SET. Book Club Edition. Doubleday, 1961. HARDCOVERS. Dust jackets of both volumes, now in clear plastic archival covers, are a little edge worn. Text is unmarked. Strong binding.

New York: Garden City Books, 1961. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. Horrabin, J.F. (Maps & Plans). Book club edition. Volume I: Front free endpaper soiled. Both volumes: Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears. 1961 Hard Cover. xvii, 504; 506-1027 pp. Two hardcover volumes. "The Outline of History, subtitled either 'The Whole Story of Man' or 'Being A Plain History of Life and Mankind,' is a book by H.G. Wells published in 1919. Wells was very dissatisfied with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War I, and so, between 1918 and 1919, produced a 1,324-page work which was published in serial softcover form in 1919, with the first hardcover edition appearing in 1920. The book met with popular acclaim and massive sales. Nevertheless, its popularity and literary achievements were overshadowed by Wells' works of science fiction, such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and his most popular work, The… Read More

Garden City Books. Good in Good dust jacket. 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8.7 X 5.8 X 278,740,137.0 inches; 1270 pages .

The MacMillan Company, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, 1926; burgundy cloth covered boards; mild edge wear; illustrated jackets with top edges chipped and housed in Gaylord covers; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; frontispieces wavy; interior clean and unmarked; 767 pages, collectively. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.

Garden City Books, 1949. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 2 volume set. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear, tear on dj. Name on fep.

London, UK: George Newnes. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Undated. Volume 1: 384pp, Volume 2: 396pp, numerous colour and black and white photographic plates, other illustrations and maps. Red cloth-covered boards, blind-embossed design on front, gilt titles on front and spine. 4to. A large and very heavy set which will require an additional charge for oversea delivery. Sun-faded spines, small black mark towards heel, rubbed spine ends, cloth fraying, some water staining to front boards. Text block edges tanning, text block dropped, volumes quite loose. Volume 1 front free endpaper has remnants of items previously tipped-in. Volume II front endpapers tanning and soiled and some general page tanning.

New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co., 1922. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in four (4) volumes, uniformly bound in green cloth, spine panels lettered in gilt. 4th ed. (revised), 1925 ptgs. All 4 volumes show uniformly minor rubbing to spine extremities, with text block edges typically somewhat dulled by age. Firm bindings, clean interiors. 1395 pp., continuously paginated, illus. w/ maps, b&w plates. Nicely preserved set..

Garden City, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . 2 Volume Set. No slipcover. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Very minimal cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding.

Garden City Books, January 1961. Hardcover. Good/Very Good.

Triangle. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1941. 2 Volumes. Hard Cover. Book Club Edition (K342) .

Garden City. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1956. 2 Volumes. Hard Cover. Book Club Edition (L131) (V32) .

London, England: The Waverley Book Company, Limited, 1925. Revised. Hardcover_cloth. Very Good-Collectible. Horrabin, J. F.. 8.5"x11" Vol. I & Vol. II Navy silk boards embossed w/gilt letters on spine. Matching silk hinge tape inside front and back boards. Beautiful full color frontispieces. Spines slightly slanted, sewn binding flexible, pages soft tone with few foxing spots throughout. Not x-library, unmarked. Minor edge and shelf wear w/faint rubs. Small tears to spine crown in front gutter. Secure ship w/track number and price covers extra weight media mail shipping. Vol. I: Beautiful color frontispieces of "Animals That Lived Before the Coming of Man"; Title pg; Scheme of Contents pgs 1-6; List of Maps and Diagrams (52) pg. ix-x; Color plates (12) pg.x; pgs 1-384. Vol. II: Beautiful full color frontispiece of Viking ship; Title pg; Scheme of Contents pg V; List of Maps and Diagrams (33) in text and essential to the text pg. vii; Colour plates(12 incl. frontispiece) pg. viii; pgs. 385-741; Key… Read More

1920. Clarence Darrow's Copy Wells, H.G. [1866-1946]. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. xix, [1], 648; x, [2], 676 pp. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Publisher's red textured cloth, central embossed vignette to front boards, gilt titles and volume numbers to spines. Light soiling and shelfwear, faint staining to front board of Vol. I and spine of Vol. II., light fading to spines, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and lightly worn, front hinge of Vol. II cracked, moderate toning, pencil marks to margins of pp. 573-581 of Vol. I, text otherwise clean. Ownership signatures of Clarence Darrow ("C.S. Darrow") to front free endpapers. $1,500. * New Republic edition, published the same year as the first collected American edition. Though best known for his science fiction, Wells was also a dedicated socialist and progressive thinker and wrote a number of non-fiction works discussing history, politics and society. Originally published in… Read More