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Title
The Door In The Wall
And Other Stories
By H G Wells
And Alvin Langdon Coburn
[Numbered Limited Edition – First Edition Thus – Clamshell Box]
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Author
Major H. DAVIDSON
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Year of Publication
2016
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Publisher
London: The Folio Society.
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Description:
London: The Folio Society, 2016, First Edition Thus, Numbered Limited Edition.
First Edition thus, Facsimile Volume on laid paper, with mounted frontispiece and 10 plates, Commentary Volume with portrait frontispiece.
Facsimile Volume bound in brown boards with gilt titles, contrasting brown cloth back, page edges untrimmed, Commentary Volume in brown cloth, gilt titles to the front board, the whole housed in publisher's cloth solander box with illustrations inset and lettered in gilt. A fine set.
Numbered Limited EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES of which this is number 519.
Facsimile reissue of the original limited edition of 1911. The Commentary Volume contains essays on Wells by George Hendrick and David Lodge. Also included are transcripts of letters from Coburn to Wells written during the development of the book.
"The Door in the Wall" is a short story by H. G. Wells first published in the Daily Chronicle in 1906 and first collected in his The Country of the Blind and Other Stories in 1911. It covers the whole life of a successful politician who has always been haunted by his memory of having in early childhood been welcomed into a paradisal garden of innocent happiness, access to which depends on finding by chance a particular door. Over the years he has several times rediscovered the door in different locations in London, but has always declined to enter, being distracted by some step in the advancement of his worldly career.
It is widely considered to be one of Wells's finest short stories, has influenced other writers, and has been filmed three times.
Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates.
Approximately 16 inches tall (Solander Box).
Condition Report
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Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 2016 Binding: Hardback
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