May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 392

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine. Frontispiece illustration. 8vo, original maroon cloth, front cover and spine gilt, inconspicuous blemish below title, minor rubbing to extremities, few light taps; front hinge tender; housed in felt-lined cloth drop-back case. (LMS). New York: Henry Holt, 1895
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first edition, second printing, on larger paper, with the author's name corrected. Currey's (B) binding. Both the first and second printings preceded the first English edition, with textual differences from the London issue. Currey, p. 524.