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WELLS, H. G. http://catalogues.lesliehindman.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=82+++++++260+&refno=10054744&saletype=%20

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$780

London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899. 8vo, red cloth. Inscribed by Wells with a drawing of Vyvyan Holland being roused from his bed, along with a poem parodying Wordsworth: "Life is real & Life is earnest / Collecting paperweights is not its goal / Bric a brac thou art & to Bric a brac returnest / Was not spoken to the soul." Spine lightly faded; otherwise a fine copy.

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Date:
2008-05-06

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