London, Michael Joseph, 1939. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Part utopian tale, part study of Fascism. A few nicks to the jacket and some rubbing. Top edge a little dusty. Price-clipped. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) needs no introduction, without him the world of speculative fiction would have been much different. Prolific across many genres, his early work in what is now science fiction helped establish the notion of postulating what might happen if some element of scientific understand, often one thing, was a little more advanced or altered, be it time travel, evolution, invisibility, atom splitting. What resulted is a series of foundational works of fiction that are still taproots today. [11687, Hyraxia Books].