Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine. Half-title with advertisements on verso. 8vo, original oatmeal cloth, lettering and sphinx device stamped in purple, slightly cocked, spine darkened; bookplate and booklabel on front pastedown, label remnant at gutter of front flyleaf. London: Heinemann, 1895
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first english edition. ex-collection vincent starrett with his bookplate and inked signature on half-title. Conforms to Currey's B Binding, but this copy with top-edges trimmed, fore-edges rough cut and 32 pages publisher's ads at end headed The Manxman. Hammond B1. Currey p. 525.