{"id":13273,"date":"2014-12-08T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13273"},"modified":"2023-06-02T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:07:52","slug":"library-additions-two-h-g-wells-first-editions-in-dust-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13273","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Two H. G. Wells First Editions in Dust Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the same L. W. Currey order as the Bradbury chapbooks, I picked up two H. G. Wells first editions in dust jacket.<\/p>\n<li>Wells, H. G. <b>Men Like Gods<\/b>. Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1923. First edition hardback (a probable third binding state, as per Currey&#8217;s listing, with decorated brown boards with black lettering, which is not recorded in Currey (2002)), a Near Fine copy with slight wear at heel, small, faint stamp to FFE, foxing to gutters and slight bend at head in a Very Good- dust jacket with small sticker remnant on front and shallow chipping at head and heel, and chips at points. Wells&#8217; second socialist utopia. <b>H.G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography<\/b>, 85. Bought for $22.50\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods-198x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Wells Men Like Gods\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods-678x1024.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods.jpeg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods-boards.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods-boards-205x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Wells Men Like Gods boards\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods-boards-205x300.jpeg 205w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods-boards-700x1024.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Men-Like-Gods-boards.jpeg 1558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Wells, H. G. <b>The Secret Places of the Heart<\/b>. Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1922. First edition hardback, first state binding (title blindstamped on cover, as per Currey (2002)), a Fine- copy with slight bending at head and heel and foxing to gutters in a Fine- dust jacket with a tiny bit of edgewear. <b>H.G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography<\/b>, 81. Bought for $37.50\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Secret-Places.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Secret-Places-196x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Wells Secret Places\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Secret-Places-196x300.jpeg 196w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Wells-Secret-Places-672x1024.jpeg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<p>Wells is a bit before the time period I usually collect (post-World War II), but I like his work and he&#8217;s tremendously important in developing science fiction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same L. W. Currey order as the Bradbury chapbooks, I picked up two H. G. Wells first editions in dust jacket. Wells, H. G. Men Like Gods. Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1923. First edition hardback (a probable third binding state, as per Currey&#8217;s listing, with decorated brown boards with black lettering, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,510,1970],"class_list":["post-13273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-h-g-wells","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22220,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions\/22220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}