WELLS HG The Time Machine

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WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine. With frontispiece illustration and tissue-guard. 1 page advertisement on verso of half-title; 6 pages of additional advertisements at end. 16mo, original tan buckram, stamped and lettered in purple, slight lean, moderate finger-soiling, few minor stray marks, mild rubbing to extremities, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, pastedown and endpapers with usual toning, else quite clean internally. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1895

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first edition, first issue of the author's first novel. Precedes the English edition by several months and with textual differences. Currey's first printing and "A" state binding with author's name misprinted "H.S. Wells" on the title-page (and in the "Author's Note" following title-page). Later issues were bound in red or maroon cloth with Wells's name corrected. "The Time Machine might be considered the first work of modern science-fiction, and it is still the classic statement of an important subgenre. A remarkable work, and necessary reading" (Bleiler, Science-Fiction 2325). Currey p.524.