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The Time
Machine.
Half-title, verso with list of
other publications; title, verso with pub-
lisher’s note, dedication leaf, and contents
leaf. 12mo, publisher’s printed wrappers,
front cover with two faint ringstains and
short closed tear, spine tips bumped, light
fingersoiling; contents clean.
London:William Heinemann, 1895
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION IN WRAPPERS
,
issued simul-
taneously with the first cloth edition.The initial
edition comprised 5000 copies in wrappers and
1000 in cloth. “After this cloth copies were
done up in hundreds or two hundreds as
required, and the remaining 750 quires (sic) in
a new style paper binding” (The publisher,
quoted in Carter, Binding Variants, p. 161).
Currey’s uncommon (D) binding with the
above quote suggesting this a remainder bind-
ing. An excellent survival. Currey pp. 525.
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Tales of Space and Time.
2 pages publisher’s advertisements at
end. 8vo, publisher’s tan cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and brown, spine substantially
darkened obscuring lettering, spine head chipped, corners bumped, scattered mild soiling;
Eugene Plunkett bookplate (with adjacent pencil marks) and bookseller’s label to front
pastedown offset to facing flyleaf, soft vertical crease to prelims and first 12 pages, one sig-
nature starting at rear.
London: Harper & Brothers, 1900 [i.e. 1899]
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
WARMLY INSCRIBED BY WELLS TO W
.
E
.
HENLEY
“
WITH AFFECTIONATE
REGARDS
”
ALONG WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
of Ugh-lomi and Eudena, the protagonists of
“A Story of the Stone Age,” one of this volume’s five collected short stories. Currey, p. 524;
Hammond C4;Wells 16.
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Thirty Strange Stories.
8vo, original decorated cloth, top edges
gilt, others uncut, spine tips and corners bumped, spine slightly darkened with small stain;
title-page with hole near bottom margin not affecting lettering, discreet label to rear paste-
down.
FIRST EDITION
.
NewYork: Edward Arnold, 1897
[400/600]
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