THE AUTOCRACY OF MR. PARHAM. His Remarkable Adventures in This Changing World

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930. The true first edition, according to Smith, Doran's U.S. issue came out prior to the London printing. Illustrated with fun double-page caricature illustrations by David Low. 8vo, publisher's original olive drab cloth lettered on the spine and upper cover in maroon, in the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET which features Low's illustrative talents. 328 pp. An as fine, clean and handsome copy, of the book, the jacket is also very good and attractive with only a little mild edge wear and a few small closed tears with no loss. FIRST EDITION, AND A FINE COPY STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL JACKET. THIS IS THE TRUE FIRST EDITION, PRECEDING THE LONDON COUNTERPART. This is a tale of Oxford don who nods off during a seance and dreams he has become a world leader: He is unfit for leadership, however, and a terrible war breaks out between England and the United States, fought in the midst of the North Atlantic. The work is an entertaining study of reaction under pressure, and is also Wells' commentary on the failure of contemporary education to prepare anyone for that kind of pressure. Mr. Low's illustrations add nicely to the novel, contemporary political figures such as Churchill and Mussolini are featured in them.