Mankind In The Making

by H.G. Wells

London: Chapman & Hall, 1904

Hardback in green cloth stamped in gold on spice. Stated “Fourth and Cheaper Edition”

• Very good plus. Some pinhole mottling on front board. Gold stamping on spine very good and bright. Very minimal wear to corners and spine ends. Endpapers are toned and are not cracked and the book is square. Internal pages are a bit toned with a section of pages from oaf 55 to 64 more toned because a different type of paper was used in printing and those pages aged differently. See my photo, please.

• “Mankind in the Making” (1903) is H.G. Wells's sequel to “Anticipations” (1901). “Mankind in the Making” analyzes the "process" of "man's making," i.e. "the great complex of circumstances which mould the vague possibilities of the average child into the reality of the citizen of the modern state." Taking an aggressive tone in criticizing many aspects of contemporary institutions, Wells proposed a doctrine he called "New Republicanism," which "tests all things by their

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