MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH. With Frontispiece.
New York: The Macmillan Company. 1916. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. 443 pp + [8] pp ads at rear, colour frontispiece. Heraldic bookplate of George H. Folger on front paste-down, with his signature and date (Oct 1st /16) in pencil on front free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket of "W.B. Clarke Co., Booksellers & Stationers, 26 & 28 Tremont St. & 30 Court Sq., Boston" to lower edge of front free endpaper. Spine panel tanned, light mottling to red cloth covers; still, a nice, very good copy. There is a long, 2-page review of the book clipped from a contemporary journal "The Nation", Dated Oct 26, 1916, loosely laid in. The story was originally serialized in "The Nation" from May-Oct, 1916. Very Good. Item #311589
¶ H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in England." Mr. Britling is a renowned writer who is quite evidently an alter ego of the author. An immensly popular book; indeed it was one of the most popular novels in the British Commonwealth during World War I.
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