Nov 10, 2016 - Sale 2430

Sale 2430 - Lot 291

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?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. 16mo, original oatmeal cloth, lettering and sphinx device stamped in purple, slight lean, spot of soiling to front board, mild fingersoiling, spine browned; Eugene Plunkett bookplate (and penciled numerals) and bookseller's label to front pastedown offset to facing flyleaf, paper remnant at top of contents leaf from preceding page, light soiling to endpapers, few dog-ears, bumps to deckle-edges. London: Heinemann, 1895

Additional Details

first english edition. Currey's (B) binding but with top and bottom edges trimmed; 16 pages publisher's ads at end with page [1] headed The Manxman (first state). Currey, p. 525.