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H.G. Wells THE WEALTH OF MR. WADDY First edition 1969 Comic "Lost" Novel Hc dj
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$4.50 via USPS Media Mail (2 to 9 business days) to United States
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Item traits
| Category: | |
|---|---|
| Quantity Available: |
Only one in stock, order soon |
| Condition: |
Unspecified by seller, may be new. |
| Binding: |
Hardcover |
| Special Attributes: |
1st Edition |
| Topic: |
Literature & Fiction Diaries & Correspondence |
| Year Printed: |
1969 |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: |
United States |
| Language: |
English |
| Original/Facsimile: |
Original |
| Place of Publication: |
Carbondale and Edwardsville |
| Subject: |
Literature & Fiction |
| Modified Item: |
No |
| Author: |
H.G. Wells |
| Character Family: |
Mr. Waddy |
| Publisher: |
Southern Illinois University Press |
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| Posted for sale: |
More than a week ago |
| Item number: |
1312628628 |
Item description
THE WEALTH OF MR. WADDY
by H.G. Wells
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, (1969).
First edition.
Crosscurrents/Modern Fiction series edited by Harry T. Moore.
Near fine copy; in a nearly fine, illustrated dust jacket that is price-clipped.
The discovery of a “lost” manuscript by H. G. Wells is an exciting
literary event, and the publishers of the Crosscurrents Modern Fiction
series were proud to present the first publication of Wells’s The Wealth of Mr. Waddy.
"A study of H. G. Wells’s correspondence reveals that as early as October
1898 he was discussing this new “comic” novel, and that he continued
work on the manuscript into March 1899. Then after more than a year’s
silence about it in the existing correspondence, he says (April 23,
1900), “Just at present Kipps turns out well,” and from there on he refers only to Kipps. In the Preface written in 1925 for the Atlantic Edition of his works, Wells recalls, “Kipps was written in 1903-4. It is only a fragment of a much larger and more ambitious design. The original title was The Wealth of Mr. Waddy.…
it was put aside, and I’m afraid destroyed.” Fortunately Mr. Wells was
mistaken, for the discarded materials of the original manuscript are in
the H. G. Wells Archive at the University of Illinois, where Professor
Harris Wilson, the textual editor of this edition, found them."
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