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john day, ,, . good, mainly due to rear larger damp marks, cover creases, damp lower front fly, jacket only, NO BOOK

New York: The John Day Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. VG+ or better copy in edge torn and chipped Dust Wrapper. ; "A lively biography, in Gallic vein, of a great man of letters and life, whose time is not long past, whose spirit moves among us now, whose amazing prophecies keep coming true one by one". Red cloth with gold gilt spine lettering and a portrait of the subject stamped in blind to the front board, black-and-white frontispiece portrait, bibliography, index. Oswald Train's bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. Edge wear, dust soiling to page edges, in dust jacket with numerous tears and chipping bx46

Norwood Editions. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Norwood Editions, 1950-06-01. Textbook Binding. Good.

New York: The John Day Company, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 338 pages. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward. A bookplate has been attached head and tail with sticky tape to the front end paper, making staining inevitable; the head's outer edge is bumped. Overall a clean, unmarked and solid copy, though obviously second hand. "...H. G. Wells: Prophet of Our Day appears four years after his death in 1946. Poland-born Antonina Vallentin, a naturalized Frenchwoman, has two qualifications for the job: 1) she knew Wells, 2) she is practiced in writing books about famous men (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, Heinrich Heine, Gustav Stresemann, Mirabeau, Goya). With H. G. Wells, she comes to grips with her first eccentric Briton-and emerges from the struggle wearing the pained, puzzled expression of a fighter who has been repeatedly but deftly rabbit-punched. Who Goes There? The English, notes harassed Biographer Vallentin, look upon… Read More