H.G. Wells "The War in the Air" with Fore-Edge Painting

Item Details

A circa 1930 vintage hardcover edition of H.G. Wells’ The History of Mr. Polly and The War in the Air in one volume. The former is a 1910 comic novel, while the second is a 1907 military novel, which hypothesized about aerial combat years before it would become a reality in the First World War. The front page edges of this volume feature a fore-edge painting of zeppelins bombing a battleship from the air. The image can only be seen when the pages are flexed. Published by Odhams Press Ltd. of London, undated, and bound in a blue leather hardcover.

Condition

- light cover wear and paper yellowing consistent with age.

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Item #

17CIN337-229