H G Wells : The Autocracy of Mr Parham : 1st/1st US Edition with Belly-band

The Autocracy of Mr Parham; His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World

By H G Wells

Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, New York, 1930. First Edition / First Printing. Hardback book in original dust jacket and with rare belly-band (obi). 8vo, 328 pages. Illustrated by David Low (British cartoonist).

CONDITION
A fine first edition. The dust jacket is in lovely clean condition with no tears or damage. The scarce beely-band is present and in very good condition. Boards and spine very clean. Endpapers very good. No writing or names to the book. Pages very clean throughout. Overall a fine and scarce first US edition.

The Autocracy of Mr. Parham is a novel by H. G. Wells. It was originally published in both Britain and America with illustrations by the British cartoonist David Low.

The U.S. edition carried the subtitle His Remarkable Adventures in This Changing World. It was one of the first twenty "dollar books" from Doubleday, Doran & Co., released together 20 June 1930. (It was listed first in a newspaper advertisement that day, and subsequently numbered '1' in advertisement of all the dollar books with a simple numerical order form.) The U.K. edition from Heinemann was available a little later on 21 July 1930.

(Loc : Glass Cabinet 3)