The Way the World Is Going

Ernest Benn Limited. First UK edition published by Ernest Benn Limited in 1928. This is a very good or better copy. The highly illustrative and striking jacket is not clipped. There is a small amount of loss at the top of the spine. There is also a tiny tear to the top left hand corner of the front panel. The… Read more about this item

1928. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good . In Good Dustwrapper. 8vo. - First Edition, first impression in the scarce dustwrapper of a book full of interesting observations and speculations from a master of both. The boards are a little rubbed w/ a small dent to the spine and spine ends bumped. Edges of text block… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Benn Limited. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Some insect damage at the inner gutters. Some staining to the spine of the DJ, rubbing at the top of the spine. Signed by Wells on the half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages; Signed by Author .… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition. Ernest Benn, 1928; no later printings indicated; [8], 198, [2]pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; front board somewhat bowed; minor wear to edges of black cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout; light foxing, very faint damp-spot on top edge… Read more about this item

Garden City:: Doubleday, Doran and Company,. 1929. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Dust soiling to cloth covered boards, else good in tan cloth with blue and red lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 324 pages .

Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Brown cloth with gilt spine titling, light edgewear, lightly bumped spine ends, spotting to back cover. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket foxed, toned, with light soil to spine; protected in Mylar. Pages foxed to textblock edges (heavily so to top) and to first and last few pages, else clean.… Read more about this item

Ernest Benn 1928. first edition hardcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1952. First edition, brown cloth, lacks d/w, 302pp, G+ (sl edge wear, mod soiled, sl foxed prelims and edges and spasmodically throughout contents, sl internal separation at joints and several locations in contents) 26 articles and a lecture