Original red cloth on boards. No writing. Small nick in front hinge. This novel about a prominent business man and his discussions with a psychiatrist has been seen by some as a love letter from Wells to Margaret Sanger, the prime mover of birth control efforts which did not bear official results until many years later. A "thinly-veiled autobiography" perhaps, as some have said. At any rate it seems to be widely agreed that Wells's writing during his "social period" is not up to the previous standard. 286 pp.