H.G. Wells : The Shape of Things to Come : 1st/1st 1933 in Original Jacket

The Shape of Things to Come

By H G Wells

Published by Hutchinson, London, 1933. First UK Edition. 8vo, hardback book in original dust jacket, 432 pages (last page not numbered) plus 10 pages of publisher's adverts.

CONDITION
A very good first edition. The original dust jacket is in good condition with just a few closed tears to the edges and fractional nibbling from the spine ends. Boards and spine are very good. Endpapers good. Colour bookplate/picture pasted to inside front board. All contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout. No writing or names. Overall a very good first edition.

The Shape of Things to Come is a science fiction novel written by the British writer H. G. Wells published in 1933. It takes the form of a future history that ends in 2106.

A long economic slump causes a major war that leaves Europe devastated and threatened by the plague. The chaos caused by the slump returns much of the world to medieval conditions. Pilots and technicians that formerly served in various nations' air forces maintain a network of functioning airfields. Around this nucleus, technological civilization is rebuilt, with the pilots and other skilled technicians eventually seizing worldwide power and sweeping away the remnants of the old nation states. A benevolent dictatorship is set up, paving the way for world peace by abolishing national divisions, enforcing the English language, promoting scientific learning, and outlawing religion. The enlightened world-citizens are able to depose the dictators peacefully and go on to breed a new race of super-talents, able to maintain a permanent utopia.

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