All Aboard for Ararat.
"No man is beaten until he knows and admits he is beaten, and that I will never know nor admit": First Edition of All Aboard for Ararat; Inscribed by H.G. Wells
All Aboard for Ararat.
WELLS, H.G.
$3,000.00
Item Number: 144321
London: Secker & Warburg, 1940.
First edition of the last of Wells’ utopian novels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “One single cabin ticket for Mrs. Wollcombe, 3 Weymouth Mews, to Ararat H.G. Wells.” Near fine in a very good just jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Uncommon in the original dust jacket and inscribed.
All Aboard for Ararat is a 1940 allegorical novella by H. G. Wells that tells a modernized version of the story of Noah and the Flood. Wells was 74 when it was published, and it is the last of his utopian writings. Graham Greene praised All Aboard For Ararat.
