H.G. Wells – The Dream – First Edition 1924
£65.00
A first edition, first printing of The Dream by H. G. Wells, published by Jonathan Cape in 1924. A very good book without inscriptions, boards bound in crimson cloth with gilt titling to the spine and single debossed border to front board, publishers debossed logo to rear board, some shelf-wear and staining to front board and spine, crimson top stain to the text block, toning and spotting to fore-edge and bottom-edge of text block, ghosting to front and rear free end papers, crease to corner of rear end paper.
The Dream by H. G. Wells centres on Sarnac, a citizen of an advanced future world; under hypnosis he recalls the life of Harry Mortimer Smith, an early 20th century Englishman. Through Harry’s memories—of love, work, war, and social struggle—Wells contrasts the turbulent past with the enlightened society of Sarnac’s future. The novel blends autobiography, psychology and utopian speculation, using one man’s life to illuminate humanity’s broader evolution and to argue that wisdom grows from understanding history’s errors and aspirations.
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A first edition, first printing of The Dream by H. G. Wells, published by Jonathan Cape in 1924. A very good book without inscriptions, boards bound in crimson cloth with gilt titling to the spine and single debossed border to front board, publishers debossed logo to rear board, some shelf-wear and staining to front board and spine, crimson top stain to the text block, toning and spotting to fore-edge and bottom-edge of text block, ghosting to front and rear free end papers, crease to corner of rear end paper.
The Dream by H. G. Wells centres on Sarnac, a citizen of an advanced future world; under hypnosis he recalls the life of Harry Mortimer Smith, an early 20th century Englishman. Through Harry’s memories—of love, work, war, and social struggle—Wells contrasts the turbulent past with the enlightened society of Sarnac’s future. The novel blends autobiography, psychology and utopian speculation, using one man’s life to illuminate humanity’s broader evolution and to argue that wisdom grows from understanding history’s errors and aspirations.
