Tono Bungay

256pp. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration front and spine. (Boards very slightly rounded on corners, rubbed at spine ends.) Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring some mild scattered spotting on last couple of leaves). A pleasing and intriguing volume in that, unusually, no publisher is stated. Tono Bungay, first published in book form in 1909, is widely considered one of his finer works – a semi autobiographical attack on the pharmaceutical industry – which, together with Kipps and The History of My Polly, secured Wells a permanent place in the canon of English literature. Tall 12mo.