Nov 14, 2017 - Sale 2462

Sale 2462 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?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, spine darkened with lettering faded, corners bumped, stain to bottom corner of rear board; endpapers foxed, ownership inscription, discreet bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. London: William Heinemann, 1895

Additional Details

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