The New Machiavelli: [a novel].

H. G. WELLS

Published by London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1911

About this Item

Covers a little faded and marked, almost detached, backstrip lacking, free endpapers rather spotted. Old ownership signature ("J. Dutt"?) on front free endpaper, with the later ownership signature of Michael Foot, his marginal markings throughout (on the rear pastedown, "H.G. understood young voters [?] - who else among the Fabians could so [?] connect?") and inscribed by him, "To a much superior Isabel [i.e. Jill Craigie], who, I know, will not draw the wrong conclusions from a wonderful story Love Michael"; loosely inserted a news-cutting of a long article from The Observer by Anthony West, "My Father's Unpaid Debts of Love", 11 January 1976 (some offsetting), and an AbeBooks packing slip addressed to Foot from Red Star Books of Berkhamsted, 8 May 2003, supplying a second-hand copy of his 1995 biography of the author, H.G.: the history of Mr Wells. 30pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Foot's biographer Kenneth O. Morgan names The New Machiavelli as one of Foot's favourite books. In an introduction to the 2005 Penguin Classics edition, he describes the novel as "the boldest statement of the Rights of Women in the new century" and specifies it as "the first H.G. Wells book I recommended to my future wife Jill Craigie" - quoting his inscription to her, the "much superior Isabel". They met in 1945 and married in 1949. Seller Inventory # 32M100529

Bibliographic Details

Title: The New Machiavelli: [a novel].

Publisher: London: John Lane, the Bodley Head

Publication Date: 1911

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Edition: 1st Edition