WELLS HG The Time Machine

Sale 2366 - Lot 253

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WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine. Half-title, verso with list of other publications; title, verso with publisher's note, dedication leaf, and contents leaf. 12mo, original printed wrappers, rebacked with supplied rear wrapper, scattered foxing, front wrapper with two narrow chips along fore-edge and faded ink ownership signature; contents clean; custom 3/4 morocco folding case. London: William Heinemann, 1895

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first edition in 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 (The publisher, quoted in Carter, Binding Variants, p. 161). Currey pp. 525.