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Lot 343
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). All Aboard for Ararat. London: Secker & Warburg, 1940.
8vo. Original buff cloth (light rubbing at extremities); dust jacket (spotting, small losses). Provenance: “Mrs. Wollcombe” (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WELLS to Wollcombe: “One single cabin ticket for Mrs. Wollcombe, 3 Weymouth Mews, to Ararat.” All Aboard for Ararat was the last of Wells’s “utopian” works. Hammond B22.
Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio