EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain

First edition, first printing. Inscribed association copy. Original orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of Wells, and illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions of illustrated handwritten letters. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine darkened and the cloth with a few tiny marks. The contents, with a gift inscription from Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky to Lady Ottoline Morrell of the Bloomsbury Group to the half title, and some sparse, faint spotting to the text block edges, are otherwise clean throughout. Without the dustwrapper.

With a gift inscription inscription from S. S. 'Kot' Koteliansky to Lady Ottoline Morrell in blue ink on the half title "For Ottoline / with love / from Kot / Christmas 1934 / (This proof of my / usefulness at present)". Lady Ottoline Morrell was an aristocrat and society hostess closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group, and was friend and patron to many of its members as well as other writers and artists, including Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, Stanley Spencer, Seigfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Aldous Huxley. Koteliansky was a translator and acted as friend and supporter to many of the most influential British writers of the early 20th century. A number of photographs are held by the National Portrait Gallery of Koteliansky and Lady Ottoline Morrell together socialising with friends throughout the 1930s.