What Is Coming
- SIGNED 295 pp. 8vo
- London: Cassell and Company, 1916
London: Cassell and Company, 1916. First edition, inscribed on first blank. 295 pp. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, decoratively blind stamped on cover, in gilt on spine. Light edge wear, minor bumping along spine, gilt faded on spine. First edition, inscribed on first blank. 295 pp. 8vo. Written prior to the United States' entry into World War I, Wells attempts to analyze the ongoing effects of the conflict on both sides, and to surmise what might happen after hostilities ended.
Inscribed rather formally to his then-lover, fellow writer Rebecca West, with whom he had commenced an affair three years earlier which, in 1914, had produced a son, Anthony: To Miss Rebecca West / H.G.W.
Inscribed rather formally to his then-lover, fellow writer Rebecca West, with whom he had commenced an affair three years earlier which, in 1914, had produced a son, Anthony: To Miss Rebecca West / H.G.W.