Meanwhile, The Picture of a Lady.

WELLS, H.G.

Item Number: 108602

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927.

First edition of Wells’ widely translated best-selling novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.

Often referred to as the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Vern and Hugo Gernsback, English writer H.G. Wells was prolific in many genres, publishing dozens of novels and novellas in addition to treatises on social commentary, history, and two books on recreational war games. Although he is now most remembered for his works of science fiction, during his lifetime he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of Utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and the internet. Meanwhile is divided into two books: "The Utopographer in the Garden", set in an Italian villa with a famed garden on the Italian Riviera, and "Advent", which follows the recruitment of a young man into an open conspiracy.