H.G. Wells – A Modern Utopia – First Edition 1905
£95.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘A Modern Utopia’ published by Chapman and Hall in 1905. A good book with one neat name and date to the endpapers which are fairly heavily browned – spotting within – spotting to the page edges and some browning to the spine.
H. G. Wells’s ambitious philosophical novel imagining a rational, scientifically organised world-state. Rather than a straightforward adventure, it blends fiction, political theory, and social criticism, contrasting Edwardian society with Wells’s idealised global civilisation. The book explores class, freedom, marriage, eugenics, education, and governance, reflecting Wells’s Fabian-influenced belief in planned progress. It is an important Wells title for collectors of his social and speculative fiction.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘A Modern Utopia’ published by Chapman and Hall in 1905. A good book with one neat name and date to the endpapers which are fairly heavily browned – spotting within – spotting to the page edges and some browning to the spine.
H. G. Wells’s ambitious philosophical novel imagining a rational, scientifically organised world-state. Rather than a straightforward adventure, it blends fiction, political theory, and social criticism, contrasting Edwardian society with Wells’s idealised global civilisation. The book explores class, freedom, marriage, eugenics, education, and governance, reflecting Wells’s Fabian-influenced belief in planned progress. It is an important Wells title for collectors of his social and speculative fiction.
