The first editions include: Love and Mrs. Lewisham, with tipped-in 2-page typed note embossed: "Arnold House, Sandgate, Kent", dated Feb. 17th 1901: "Mr. Wells presents his compliments to Mrs. Collins and he very much regrets that she finds the end of his story unsatisfactory ...," half-title of "The story of a very young couple" inscribed by the author, followed by his 4-line quotation from Francis Bacon and signed, signature of Florence Collins, 1900; Anticipations, signed by the author, with a pen and ink drawing captioned, "This is Jane" (Catherine Robbins), tipped-in is a 4-page autograph letter signed by Wells, dated Spade House, Sandgate, 6.11.01: "Your prospectus seems to be attempting in a partial way and under a damnably bad battered whore of a name ... the thing to do is to propagate Anticipations. The book as a whole is a complete discussion of the present state of things and a fully drawn outline of a logical and hopeful revolutionary movement," 1902; Kipps, second issue, inscribed by the author to Elizabeth Healey, 1905; Ann Veronica, inscribed "H. G. Wells to his Daddy," 1909; What is coming, 1916; War and the Future, 1917 and The Salvaging of Civilization, 1921, each inscribed to "A.G.G." (A. G. Gardiner); The King who was a King, inscribed by the author to: "George, who has a clear eye and a sure hand & a clear head, the unpatriotic pamphlet," and signed, 1929; Babes in the Darkling Wood, inscribed by the author to "Beatrice," signed and dated, 1940; The World of William Clissold, 3 volumes, one of 198 copies, volume I signed by the author and inscribed by him "This book when I look at war was I realise written in a phase of credulity, when I could believe in benevolent big business and all sorts of copious assurances that delude me no more," signed and dated 16.v.43, original vellum-backed cloth, gilt, t.e.g, unopened and uncut, 8°, 1926.