Nov 14, 2017 - Sale 2462

Sale 2462 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WELLS, H.G. The War of the Worlds. 8vo, original grey cloth lettered in black, slight lean, short tear at spine head, minor rubbing to extremities, few insignificant blemishes; offsetting to front endpapers from laid-in news clipping, rear endpapers foxed, faded bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. London: Heinemann, 1898

Additional Details

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.