viii, 56pp. Red cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine. 12mo. Lightly rubbed corners and spine ends, slightly cocked. Text block edges tanning. Free endpapers just starting to tan, pages ageing. Otherwise, internally neat and clean. Paper dust jacket sun-faded, chipping to edges.
A short novel written as a rebuttal to the criticisms of Hiliarie Belloc of H W Wells' earlier work.