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H[erbert] George Wells. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World. Garden Ci...
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H[erbert] George Wells. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1930. First U.S. edition. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-328, four inserted double-page plates with illustrations by David Low, original tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed, yellow coated endpapers. Cloth a bit dusty, a very good copy in good pictorial dust jacket (wraparound illustrations by David Low) with chips from head and tail of spine panel, light wear at upper corner tips, some sunning to spine panel, and light soiling to rear panel.More Information:
A history don at Oxford falls asleep during a seance and is possessed by A Master Spirit from Mars. "He becomes Lord Paramount of England and dismisses Parliament. War between America and England ensues, but in the end it is all a dream" (Gerber). Among the characters is a thinly disguised caricature of Winston Churchill. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 59. Gerber, Utopian Literature (1973), p. 151. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 190. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15008. See Hammond B15. See Wells Society 109.
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