This copy of the Boni & Liveright Modern Library edition is in Very Good- condition. Toledano catalogue number 5.2 (second state for this Modern Library title), limp bound in flexible dark green leatherette with title/author on spine and Boni Liveright logo on front cover in gilt. Spine/binding style #1. Plain endpapers. Publication dated to 1918 via inclusion of catalog C4 from Spring 1918, listing 50 Modern Library titles. Binding is sound and text is unmarked. Slight bumping to corners, rubbing to spine head and tail, pages tanned. Small closed tear (about 3/8 inch) to top of title page. Leatherette covering is no longer perfectly smooth and shows very slight wrinkling in spots. 395 pages.
Modern warfare takes to the skies in this novel by a master of science fiction and fantasy. Young Bert Smallways, a brilliant mechanist and accidental aeronaut, finds himself as a reluctant stowaway upon the very same airship which begins the Great War. Smallways is swept away aboard the Vaterland, the flagship piloted by a belligerent German Prince, whose mastery of technology shall herald in a new age of war. Filled with petrol-powered war machines, ironclads, bombardments, and espionage, The War in the Air prophesied methods of warfare that would only develop later in the twentieth century. A cornerstone of early science fiction, this exciting tale is H. G. Wells at his best.
