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Lot 233

WELLS (H.G.)
Ann Veronica. A Modern Love Story, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, 1909

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WELLS (H.G.)

Ann Veronica. A Modern Love Story, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To A.B. Walkl[e]y from H.G. Wells/ and don't believe what Fisher Unwin says about it on the cover" on the front free endpaper, half-title, publisher's maroon cloth gilt, gilt-stamped with centrepiece vignette with banner motto "vita sine literis mors est" on upper cover, rubbed [Wells 39], 8vo, T. Fisher Unwin, 1909

Footnotes

INSCRIBED BY H.G. WELLS TO THE LITERARY CRITIC ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY, wittily commenting on the motto "vita sine literis mors est" ("Life without books is death") used by the publisher to decorate the upper cover. Ann Veronica "whose heroine was a feminist, was the first of a series of novels aimed at the taboos surrounding sexual desire in Edwardian England" (ODNB).

Provenance: A.B. Walkley (1855–1926), presentation inscription from the author.

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