The Dream

  • New York: Macmillan, 1924
By WELLS, H.G. [Herbert George]
New York: Macmillan, 1924. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; top edge gilt; 318pp. Tight, clean and Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 at base of front flap), somewhat aged with shallow chips along top edge, just Very Good.

"The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a future eutopia" (Sargent), set two thousand years in the future but with most of the action taking place, through the device of an extended dream, in Victorian and Edwardian England. SARGENT p.90. CURREY (1979) p.518 (the London edition). BLEILER (1979) p.205.

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