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Autumn Chills: Fine Horror and Mystery Literature

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Our fall sale of fine books & manuscripts focuses on rare horror and mystery first editions, scarce pulps and zines, manuscripts, and more by the most famous authors of modern works in the genres of horror and mystery. Among the highlights are the true first edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and other cornerstones of the genre.
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Lot 274

[MCMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). What is Coming? A Forecast of Things After the War. London, New York, Toronto, Melbo

Estimate: $300 - $500
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[MCMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). What is Coming? A Forecast of Things After the War. London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne: Cassell and Co Ltd, 1916. 8vo. 295, [1, colophon] pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped blind and gilt in original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Containing Wells' futuristic prediction of "things to come" on the eve of the Great War. Larry McMurtry's famous abstract bookplate is fixed to the front pastedown. 

Condition

Jacket soiled and toned, chipping to extremities, flaps foxed. Boards lightly stained. Interior bright and clean, binding tight. Very good. 

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Bookplate of Larry McMurtry to front pastedown.