H.G. Wells Collection

Collection of ca. 565 books and pamphlets by and about H.G. Wells, purchased from antiquarian bookdealer Glenn Finley in 1988. Finley amassed the collection in order to gain firsthand experience with comparative bibliography. The prospectus included with the collection was created by Finley as a preliminary annotated bibliography. The prospectus is divided into: books and pamphlets by Wells (405 items), collected letters (10 items), parodies (4 items), collected editions (1 item), periodical appearances (9 items), ephemera (4 items), biography & criticism (57 items), bibliography (13 items), and later editions and reprints (62 items). The collection is strong in British colonial editions and in unrecorded editions, issues and variants, and includes first and early editions of virtually all of Wells's work. Gifts and purchases continue to augment the original collection.
List available.

Format(s): Books, Serials, Pamphlets, Letters
Library: John Hay

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Access to the collection:

Online Catalog (BruKnow):
Glenn Finley H. G. Wells Collection (Brown University)

In-house Access to the Collection:
Bibliography
The prospectus for the collection contains detailed bibliographic notes on individual items.

Notes:
The collection lacks these desiderata: Wells' second book, Honours Physiography, and the early Fabian pamphlets, Reconstruction of the Fabian Society and Faults of the Fabian.