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H. G. Wells. The First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life. ...
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Description
H. G. Wells. The First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life. London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908.8vo. 1-page publisher's catalogue on the verso of the final leaf, blank on the recto. Publisher's blue-gray cloth, lettered across the front cover in black within black double border lines; gilt-lettered spine; uncut, with some pages unopened.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. JULIAN HUXLEY COPY, SIGNED BY HIM, on the front free end paper, with marginal pencil lines, possibly in his hand. The brother of Aldous Huxley, Julian was an evolutionary biologist who collaborated with Wells on The Science of Life. (1930)
Condition: Wear to cloth concentrated at the edges and corners; intermittent foxing.
References: Hammond E8; Wells 36.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
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