A Modern Utopia – H.G. Wells (early 1900’s)

Description

The book is from the early 1900’s but is not dated. It has a lovely art nouveau deign design in gold on spine. Top page edges gilted. Beautiful Blue embossed cover with foil blocking on the spine.

It is in very good condition other than the loose page next to title page.-see images. Cover shows a bit shelfwear with previous owner name on inside of cover in ink; name also written in ink along outer pages of book. Binding still tight and inside clean and very minimal foxing.

Still a treasure to have for fans of antiquarian books. This edition not easy to find.

Price commensurate to condition.

While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world.

Description

A Modern Utopia is one of the first important blueprints for the modern welfare state and an early major statement of Wells’s idea of the World State, an idea that is perhaps his greatest contribution to the intellectual history of this century. In this “quintessential utopia,” as Lewis Mumford calls it, Wells “sums up and clarifies the utopias of the past, and brings them into contact with the world of the present.”