The Way to World Peace
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1930. Very Good. Item #49132
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1930. First Edition. Small octavo in canary card wrappers (18 cm); 31pp. Wrappers rubbed and creased at margins with darkened spine and joints cracked intermittently. Minor pencil to wrapper corners. Page edges gently foxed and a handful of pages include previous owner's penciled-in marginalia. A Very Good example.
Wells's contribution to Ernest Benn's Affirmations series, an attempt to set the world right one slim volume of thought at a time. Verso of last page includes a paragraph describing the previous owner's own solution to war: "...abolish manufacture of every kind of armament & munitions."
H.G. Wells Society 111.
Price: $85.00