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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9 x 5.75 inches. 253 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy. Signed inscription, Gip Wells to Sheridan Morle[ (1941-2007), broadcaster and show business biographer]. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and whiet photographic plates, including facsimiles. The sequel to An Experiment in Autobiography (1934) which H. G. Wells was unable to publish in his own lifetime as it includes accounts of his main exramarital affairs. These included those with Dorothy Richardson, Violet Hunt, Amber Reeves, Rebecca West, Elizabeth von Arnim, Odette Keun and Moura Benckendorf, later Budberg. Edited by Wells's son, George Philip Wells (1901-85), known as Gip, who had helped his father; projects after 1920 and became a zoologist. Includes a chronology at the end.