History Of Mr. Polly

WELLS H.G. THE HISTORY OF MR. POLLY. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.

One of Wells' rare, early, realistic, semi-autobiograpical novels. With heavy socialistic commentary as he deals with the pretensions & predicaments of the aspiring lower-middle class. Red cloth boards & spine, no DW. Gilt lettering, remanant of flap enclosed. Clean text solidly bound. No writing. Mild bumping of edges. sm 8 vo, 318 pages Hard Cover Very Good

[SW: History of Mr. Polly H.G. Wells, Victorian Novels, H.G. Wells Victorian Novel Social History, Autobiographical]

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Maclean's Magazine - Canada's National Magazine, July 1, 1933, Toronto The Maclean Publishing Company 1933 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.
Good Mitchell, Thomas W.: Cover Art

52 pages. Cover painting by Thomas W. Mitchell features man with ax and oxen. Content: Fantastic International Trucks ad features photos of their largest and smallest models plus diagrams of their other 11 models; Investors Syndicate ad features Mrs. Martha E. Dodele; Nice Canada Dry ad features tennis-playing couple; She Who Walks the Waters, by Jefferson Cralle; Mr. Beatty - President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Aces' Race - proposed professional world's championship sculling race at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), by Frank Adams - with illustrations of Major Goodsell, Teddy Phelps, Bert Barry and Bobby Pearce; Fair by not Frail, Gladys B. Taber; Eye, Eye, Sir, by Hugh Grant Rowell, M.D. - an article on vision; Who's Next? - an article to help other Canadians understand how political trouble of Ontario's Conservatives may affect the rest of the country - with photos of George S. Henry, Mines McCrea, Col. W.H. Price, and Mr. Macaulay; Warden of the Flock, by Paul Annixter; Central Banking, by Harold E. Crowle - a monetary commission will in the near future investigate the desirability of a central bank for Canada; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; A Fall Out of History, by H.M. Blake; Feathered Speed - Pigeon Races, by W.T. Webb; Grain Fair, by Roderick Stuart Kennedy - The World's Grain Exhibition at Regina; Nice colour ad for Campbell's vegetable soup; President Roosevelt's Brain Trust; British M.P. W. Kirkpatrick supports Japan's conquest of Manchuria; Lux Toilet Soap ad features Loretta Young, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blake; Letters to the Editor; A Swedish Forest has supplied logs for 700 years and has greater supply than ever; The Great Auk may still live; The Summer Cottage - article by F.L. DeN. Scott; The Investor and His Stockbroker, by C.W. Stollery; Nice ad for Dominions Tires inside back cover; Nice ad for Chevrolet Standars Six and Master Six on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. First Edition Stapled Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; First Edition

[SW: Maclean's Magazine - Canada's National Magazine, July 1, 1933 Thomas W. Mitchell features man with ax and oxen. Content: Fantastic International Trucks ad features photos of their largest and smallest models plus diagrams of their other 11 models; Investors Syndicate ad features Mrs. Martha E. Dodele; Nice Canada Dry ad features tennis-playing couple; She Who Walks the Waters, by Jefferson Cralle; Mr. Beatty - President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Aces' Race - proposed professional world's championship sculling race at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), by Frank Adams - with illustrations of Major Goodsell, Teddy Phelps, Bert Barry and Bobby Pearce; Fair by not Frail, Gladys B. Taber; Eye, Eye, Sir, by Hugh Grant Rowell, M.D. - an article on vision; Who's Next? - an article to help other Canadians understand how political trouble of Ontario's Conservatives may affect the rest of the country - with photos of George S. Henry, Mines McCrea, Col. W.H. Price, and Mr. Macaulay; Warden of the Flock, by Paul Annixter; Central Banking, by Harold E. Crowle - a monetary commission will in the near future investigate the desirability of a central bank for Canada; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; A Fall Out of History, by H.M. Blake; Feathered Speed - Pigeon Races, by W.T. Webb; Grain Fair, by Roderick Stuart Kennedy - The World's Grain Exhibition at Regina; Nice colour ad for Campbell's vegetable soup; President Roosevelt's Brain Trust; British M.P. W. Kirkpatrick supports Japan's conquest of Manchuria; Lux Toilet Soap ad features Loretta Young, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blake; Letters to the Editor; A Swedish Forest has supplied logs for 700 years and has greater supply than ever; The Great Auk may still live; The Summer Cottage - article by F.L. DeN. Scott; The Investor and His Stockbroker, by C.W. Stollery; Nice ad for Dominions Tires inside back cover; Nice ad for Chevrolet Standars Six and Master SixCanadian History Magazine Back Issues]

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Wells, H. G. The History of Mr. Polly and The War in the Air, London Odhams Press Ltd ; fester Einband / hard cover
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375pp - Undated, but the library at University of Glasgow estimates its publication date as about 1940. Two of Wells' less well-known Science Fiction novels, The History of Mr. Polly (1909) and The War in the Air (1908). In the latter, which was a case of Science Fiction becoming Science Fact by WWI, Wells pleads, " that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is [either] chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice." In a lighter vein, "Mr Polly" is a humourous romp, worlds away from the very serious tone of The Time Machine. "...This history is strictly, as Mr. Polly would put it in his creatively cracked version of English, a series of 'little accidentulous misadventures'." <P>The book is immaculate, appearing never to have been opened, let alone read. The blue leatherette boards have a blind-stamped profile of the author on the front and gilt titles on the spine. TEG. The end papers, front and rear are a sky blue marbleised decor. First Thus No Jacket Leatherette 5 x 7.5"; First Thus

[SW: Fiction, Novel, Classic, H. G. WellsMovie Tie-in Fiction Wells, H G]

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Wells, H G: The Invisible Man. Penguin Fiction No 151, London Penguin

Green paperback G : in good condition without dustwrapper. Some cover wear Reprint 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4") :: To commemorate Well's 80th birthday Penguin published this as part of a uniform set of ten volumes comprising of 100,000 copies of each of the following: Tono-Bungay, The New Machiavelli, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr. Moreau, A Short History of the World, The Time Machine and other stories, The History of Mr Polly, Love and Mr Lewisham, The Invisible Man, Kipps English

[SW: Crime Penguin]

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