Herbert George WELLS (inscribed to André CITROËN)
War and the future. Italy, France, Britain at war - Exemplaire d'André Citroën
Cassell and Company|London • New York • Toronto • Melbourne 1917|13.50 x 20.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Second issue, printed in March-April 1917, one month after the first edition published in February of the same year.
Publisher's red cloth.
Exceptional inscribed copy signed by H.G. Wells to André Citroën: “To André Citröen who has to do his share in making a new world out of a very shattered old one. From H. G. Wells.”
The inscription echoes the chapter of the book entitled New arms for old ones, in which Wells describes the armament factory created by Citroën to remedy the French artillery weakness. Reconverted at the end of the war, the factory will become the first Citroën automobile manufacturer.
€4,500