254 pages. Brown boards with gilt print on spine. A bookplate has been attached to the front end paper with sticky tape, which will leave the inevitable staining; the book is foxed, pages and fore-edge. These are its main sins, else a solid copy with no human markings. ""The King Who Was a King - The Book of a Film" is a fascinating treatise on the development of film written by H. G. Wells ( and first published in 1929. Writing at the when cinema was beginning to explode, Wells explores the emerging industry's history, future, and the elements of contemporary film." (*google) "Ruritanian romance; borderline SF. How a king outmaneuvers the foreign offices of the great powers and brings about a World Control for Calcomite (an SF metal); (The film was never produced.) (R.D. Myullens)