May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WELLS, H.G. The War of the Worlds. 8vo, original grey cloth lettered in black, spine sunned, rubbing to extremities with slight fray to spine head, few soil marks to front board; bookplate to front pastedown, bookplate and ownership signature to front flyleaf, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, two leaves with corner crease. (ESS) London: Heinemann, 1898
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first edition, first issue. Currey's state (A) with 16 pages publisher's advertisements at end dated Autumn 1897. Currey p. 526; Wells 14; Hammond B5.