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Wells, Herbert George
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- The Time Machine, An Invention. London: William Heinemann, 1895
- Paper, Ink
12mo (6 3/4 x 4.5 in; 170 x 115 mm). Original printed wrappers, with minor browning to extremities and some losses and separation to spine. Half-title, verso with list of other publications; minor soiling to first page, otherwise contents clean. In quarter morocco clamshell box.
Literature
Currey 525
Catalogue Note
the first english edition of h. g. wells' masterwork of science fiction, in the original printed wrappers
Issued simultaneously with the first cloth edition. Currey states that the initial edition comprised 5000 copies in wrappers and 1000 in cloth. Demand for clothbound copies was so great, however, that unsold wrappered copies were stripped of their wrappers and cased in cloth. "Quite a number of soiled paper copies were also rebound in cloth" making this fragile book even scarcer.