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  Exceptional association copy of The Great State; inscribed by H.G. Wells to fellow writer and mistress Rebecca West and with over 40 pages of ink drawings and doodles by him

  WELLS, H.G.; Frances Evelyn Warwick; L.G. Chiozza Money; E. Ray Lankester; C.J. Bond; et al. [Rebecca West].

  The Great State: Essays in Construction.

  London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912.

  Exceptional association copy of this compilation of political essays by H.G. Wells, Frances Evelyn Warwick and many others. Octavo, original cloth. Later printing. Association copy, inscribed by H.G. Wells on the front free endpaper, "Rebecca West from H.G. Wells 1913 There are some pictures inside (Personal & Confidential only to be shown to really safe people like Taylor)." Wells has added original drawings and doodles to over 40 pages of the book, mostly cartoons drawn on blanks, in margins, or in blank spaces before or after chapter headings, often expressing humorous and sometimes cheeky comments on nearby printed text, occasionally with holograph captions or dialogue. The recipient, Rebecca West was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. In the September 19, 1912 issue of the feminist weekly, The Freewoman, Rebecca West responded to H.G. Wells's new novel Marriage by attacking the author, writing that he "... is the Old Maid among novelists; even the sex obsession that lay clotted on Ann Veronica ... like cold white sauce was merely Old Maids' mania, the react...

  Price: $22,500.00     Item Number: 147763

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