H. G. Wells : His Turbulent Life and Times

London: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Pencil marginalia on a few pages. Some rubbing to dust-jacket. Foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; First UK edition. x, [2], 330, [6 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + plates. Grey boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 148mm. Biography. "H. G. Wells was the outstanding literary figure of an age in which there were many giants. Coming from a humble home, and almost self-educated, he used his great natural gifts to make a mark on the first half of this century that will never be erased. As a novelist with a scientific training, he spoke eloquently for the two cultures long before any schism between them was noted. As a builder of Utopies, his picture of the better world we could make for ourselves touched the imagination of millions of readers. As the self-appointed historian of man's long climb from his beginnings on earth to the twentieth century; as a prophet who foresaw the tank as a battle-weapon as long ago as 1903 and the atomic bomb before 1914; as an eminent writer who had helped to shape the League of Nations, and who during World War II called for a Declaration of the Rights of Man as a fundamental law throughout the world, Wells seemed not only the successful man of letters who was spokesman for his generation, but one who deserved the title Friend of Man." - from dust-jacket blurb. .