Future by Wells, Signed (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Butterworth-Heinemann 1998 Fine/ SOFTCOVER. Very Fine. In Plastic. Autographed by Author "To Dave + Carol.Stuart". Signed by Author.

Paperbacks. Condition: Near Fine. First Editions, First Printing. NrF. THREE BOOKS. First editions, first printings. Paperbacks. PRESENTATION COPIES INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on half-title pages. Inscriptions read, 'For ------/love/David Wells'. Titles are, 'Complete Guide To Developing Your Psychic Skills', 'Past, Present And Future: What Your Past Lives Tell You About Yourself' and 'Real People, Real Past Lives'. Published 2006, 2007 and 2008. x,214pp; xi,208pp; and viii,258pp. David Wells (born 1960) is a Scottish medium and astrologer. He has been featured as the main medium on Living TV's paranormal series 'Most Haunted'. First book, as above, has a minor reading crease to spine; else near fine SCARCE copies of first editions, first printings SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. HEAVY PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. POSTAGE WILL BE KEPT AT COST. Presentation Copies Inscribed And Signed By Author.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1998 B00K, As New/, (illustrator). 1st Edition. B00K, As New/, $185.63 O75O698764 CH00SING the FUTURE: the P0WER of STRATEGIC THINKING; .Signed. WELLS, Stuart BUTTERW0RTH-HEINEMANN BURLINGT0N, MA 1998 1sT Edition, 2nD Printing S/C. Very Light Green Spine With Title In Black Letters, Soft Cover B00K, As New/, Slightest Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 216 Numbered Pages That Are Clean And Tight To The Spine, In As New/ Condition. Signed By Author On Title Page, Using A Fine Tipped Blue Pen, Along With His Business Card, Along With Two Exercise Pages. D/J: None. = Description Applies To This B00K, Only. = This Author Signed Book Has A Special Significance, Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE. =*=* California State Law Now Requires The Following Notice Be Given: *=*=* Seller Did Not See And Was Not Present When This Item Was Signed. No Certificate Of Authenticity Is Included In This Sale/Purchase Price. If You Would Like A Certificate Of Authenticity, You Can Obtain One At Your Own Convenience And Expense, Which Is Not Included In The Purchase Price Of This Item. =*=*. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. E Mcknight Kauffer (illustrator). 142 Pages; Part 1 With 16 Chapters. Introductory Remarks In Front Of Book; Finale In Rear Of Book. Pages Tight; No Markings On Pages. Signed Note "To Gilbert L Harcutt H G Wells" On Front End Page. Dark Blue Boards With Gild Lettering On Front Cover And Spine. Minor Shelf Wear. Glossy Dust Jacket Has Beige Background; Light Blue And Black Lettering And Illustration On Front Cover And Spine. Black Background With Image Of Film Scenes On Back Cover. Some Rubbing And Fading; Few Nicks On Dj Edges And Spine Ends; Minor Creasing And Wear Near Top Front; 2 Small Tears Of Approximately 1 Inch At Top On Front Dj.Wear On Fold Flaps Ends. Author Provides A Complete And Thrilling Story, Which Is Not Impaired In Any Way Although The Full Technical Details Of The Film Are Given. The London Film Productions Gave Permission To Use The Photographs Which Were Reproduced On The Dust Jacket. Other Works By H G Wells Are Listed On The Front End Page Opposite The Title Page. Chapter Headings Include: Before The Second World War; War Break Over Everytown; The Second World War; The Wandering Sickness; Everytown Under A Patriot Chief; The New Generation; World Audience; The Struggle For The Space Gun; The Firing Of The Space Gun, Etc. Very Rare Signed Copy With His Signature Ending In A Special Elegant Design. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. E. McKnight Kauffer (illustrator). First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title in black square with gilt border. This edition contains the story covered by the classic Raymond Massey film. A professional facsimile of the rare E. McKnight Kauffer dust jacket is included in pristine condition and in a plastic cover. The book is near fine with light amber spotting to the endpaper from humidity, not extending to the text block. Signed.

First edition, first printing of both volumes, bound in one. Signed by the author. Inscribed presentation and association copy. Mid-twentieth century half calf for Henry Sotheran, five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and titles on red morocco labels to the spine. Brown cloth boards. Ownership initials of Richard Kayne in gilt to the bottom right corner of the upper board. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing to the spine hinges and corners. The contents, with the bookplate of Richard Kayne to the front pastedown, and four pages of additional dialogue in the form of carbon-copy typescript (annotated in the hand of Wells), are clean throughout. The Man Who Could Work Miracles is inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title "for Philip Charlot / H. G. Wells / April 1936". The recipient was the film editor on the 1937 Lothar Mendes production starring Ralph Richardson, Joan Gardner and Roland Young. Underneath Wells' inscription Charlot has later inscribed "for Richard Kayne / with very best wishes / Philip Charlot / October 1956". The page preceding the half title of the second title 'Things to Come' is further inscribed by Charlot "Sorry, Richard, but H.G. forgot to sign this one for me - Philip". The recipient of Charlot's presentation is the writer, composer and musician Richard Kayne (pseudonym of William Sydney Kuttner), who is perhaps best remembered for composing the haunting theme from the 1959 Horror film 'House On Haunted Hill' (starring Vincent Price). [Bleiler; Locke: Spectrum of Fantasy]. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition of the novelization of the classic 1936 film H. G. Wells' Things to Come. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Signed by H.G. Wells and actor Derrick de Marnay on front free endpaper. Derrick de Marnay starred as Richard Gordon in the acclaimed 1936 film adaptation, Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies. In near fine condition. A very sharp and unique signed example. First published in 1933, The Shape of Things to Come 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. In decades of chaos with much of the world reverting to medieval conditions, pilots and technicians formerly serving in various nations' air forces maintain a network of functioning air fields. 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 number of Wells' short-term predictions would come true, such as the aerial bombing of whole cities presented in more detail than in his previous The War in the Air and the eventual development of weapons of mass destruction. The book was adapted into the 1936 film, Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring Derrick de Marnay as Richard Gordon. "Things to Come qualifies as the first true masterpiece of science fiction cinema" (Westfahl, Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film).

Couverture rigide. Cassell and Company | London New York Toronto Melbourne 1917 | 13.50 x 20.50 cm | reliure de l'éditeur | Retirage de mars-avril 1917, postérieur d'un mois à l'édition originale parue en février de la même année. Reliure de l'éditeur en pleine toile rouge, dos lisse. Exceptionnel envoi autographe signé d'H. G. Wells à André Citroën?: «?To André Citröen who has to do his share in making a new world out of a very shattered old one. From H.G. Wells?» («?à André Citröen, qui contribue à créer un monde nouveau à partir d'un monde en ruines. De la part d'H.G. Wells?»). L'envoi fait un écho au chapitre du livre intitulé New arms for old ones, dans lequel Wells décrit l'usine d'armement créée par Citroën pour remédier à la faiblesse de l'artillerie française. Reconvertie à la fin de la guerre, l'usine deviendra la première manufacture d'automobiles Citroën. * Superbe témoignage de l'amitié naissante entre l'industriel André Citroën et l'écrivain H.G. Wells, qui dans ce même ouvrage, consacre un chapitre à la nouvelle usine de munitions conçue par Citroën, ainsi qu'au progrès social qu'il apporta chez ses quelque treize mille «?munitionnettes?». War and the Future, ouvrage de propagande écrit au cur de la première guerre mondiale, réunit diverses observations sur le conflit en cours, soulignant le changement radical de l'art de la guerre qu'imposent les nouvelles technologies d'armement. Wells y expose sa théorie d'un nouvel ordre mondial scientifique et technique, qui imprégnait déjà ses chefs-d'uvre de science-fiction de la fin du siècle dernier (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine). De son côté Citroën, ayant compris l'importance capitale de l'artillerie dans la guerre moderne, fit le pari en 1915 de concurrencer la puissance des usines d'armement Krupp. Abandonnant son projet d'usine automobile le temps de la guerre, il construisit à ses propres frais un immense complexe industriel sur le quai de Javel, qui produisit 23 millions d'obus pour les armées alliées. War and the Future porte les marques de l'admiration de Wells pour Citroën, qu'il rencontra l'année précédente lors de son tour d'Europe pour l'écriture de ce livre?: «?He is a compact, active man in dark clothes and a bowler hat, with a pencil and a notebook conveniently at hand. He talked to me in carefully easy French, and watched my face with an intelligent eye through his pince-nez for the signs of comprehension.?» («?C'est un homme compact, dynamique, vêtu de noir et portant un chapeau melon, gardant un carnet et un crayon toujours à portée de main. Il m'a parlé en un français facile, et guettait d'un il alerte à travers son pince-nez des signes de compréhension?», page 141). à l'immobilité du Front qu'il visite en 1916 l'écrivain oppose l'incroyable dynamisme de l'usine Citroën, véritable temple de l'industrie moderne, qu'il décrit comme «?les hangars [.] les plus actifs et vivants de toute la guerre?» («?The busy sheds of Paris struck me as being the most living and active things in the entire war machine?», page 139). Les quelques heures passées avec ce pionnier de l'ingénierie militaire eurent un impact considérable sur l'écrivain, qui sut reconnaître en lui un innovateur à son image, s'activant à la construction du monde moderne. Au sortir de la guerre, Citroën mit fin à la production d'armes et fonda la fameuse entreprise Citroën, faisant de l'usine sa toute première manufacture automobile. à l'instar d'autres personnalités comme Joséphine Baker ou Rudolph Valentino, H. G. Wells deviendra un habitué de la marque Citroën et demeura un fervent admirateur du génie de son fondateur. Réalisée à l'aube du XXème siècle, cette superbe dédicace autographe de Wells à Citroën sur l'ouvrage qui célèbre ses talents de visionnaire, témoigne de l'admiration d'un homme qui rêva le futur pour celui qui le réalisa. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] Second issue, printed in March-April 1917, one month after the first edition published in February of the same year. Publisher'.

First Edition. First Printing. Signed and inscribed in black ink by H.G. Wells to the manager of the Leicester Square and Lyceum theaters: ÒTo William Yorkham, who bridges the ages between the Lyceum & Leicester Square. H.G. WellsÓ and with WellÕs flamboyant paraph florish. It was at the Leicester Square Theater that Things To Come had its world premiere on February 21, 1936. With light foxing to the top edge and endpapers, else a near fine copy in the original cloth binding in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears. The screenplay written by H.G. Wells for the William Cameron Menzies directed British production starring Raymond Massey resulting in the first science fiction classic film of the sound era. Menzies, perhaps the finest production designer in film history, created a striking vision of the future that is still arresting today. Very rare signed by Wells, the modern father of science fiction.

First Edition. *** ASSOCIATION COPY ***THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE, T. Fisher Unwin, 1902, first edition, issued simultaneously in wrappers and red cloth, this, the paperbound issue is quite scarce and has been bound (with the front wrapper preserved) in an early twentieth century binding of three quarter brown leather and tan cloth which is rubbed at the edges, but still a very good copy. Inscribed by the author to his friend, Sidney Bowkett, his model for Chitterlow in KIPPS. A nice association copy thus.