The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: William Heinemann, 1895. First edition of the foundational science fiction novella, later issue with no ads at rear. viii , 152 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in purple-brown, all edges trimmed. Near Fine with sunned spine, light rubbing and soiling to cloth, and spot of soiling to upper edge of textblock. Light foxing to endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, and light toning to contents. Wells

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