Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge] - The War in the Air and Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted

London, George Bell And Sons, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first issue. 8vo. original Blue cloth with gilt on the cover & spine. 389pp with 2 pages of publisher's ads. One of Wells' famous "Scientific Romances" highly sought after. Illustrated by A. C. Michael with sixteen black & white plates. A solid very good copy, the spine extremities very neatly & archivally mended. The book block clean & blemish free. An extraordinary story of a mechanic carried off in a balloon;", is a remarkable rarity, being a future war novel which uses the viewpoint of ordinary people and deals primarily with the effects of aerial warfare on those ordinary people. the shape of Wells's argument brings him to a conclusion very different from that characteristic of the future war novels written before 1914: civilization is virtually obliterated, and the Scientific Age is brought to an end." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 72. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2407-10. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15106. Currey (2002), p. 425 (binding A). Hammond B11. Wells 35. Wells Society 36. .

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