IMPERIALISM AND THE OPEN CONSPIRACY. (Criterion Miscellany-No. 4). [This is incorrectly numbered here and should be No. 3, see inside flaps].

WELLS, H. G.

Published by Faber and Faber., London, 1929

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FIRST EDITION. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. 24 pp. In plain card wrapper inside yellow paper fold over wrapper with inside flaps, with blurb and series list, extremities worn with chips and small missing sections on edges of yellow wrapper; otherwise a very good copy with one page still uncut. Loosely inset: publisher's advertisement, [2 pp.]. A critique by Wells of the propaganda for a 'self-sufficient Empire' by Lords Melchett and Beaverbrook, with a positive alternative to 'their semi-romantic, short-sighted and fore-doomed imperialism.' (Catalogue of the H. G. Wells Collection in the Bromley Public Libraries, 225, p.27). WELLS EMPIRE LIT. NON-FICTION HISTORY 20TH CENTURY WELLS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IMPERIALISM AND THE OPEN CONSPIRACY. (Criterion Miscellany-No. 4). [This is incorrectly numbered here and should be No. 3, see inside flaps].
• Publisher: Faber and Faber., London
• Publication Date: 1929