Signed Limited Edition of the Works of H.G. Wells; Finely Bound
The Works of H.G. Wells.
Wells, H.G.
Item Number: 18094
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924-27.
The Atlantic edition, one of 1,050 copies, signed by H.G. Wells in volume one. Octavo, 28 volumes. Bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt. Frontispiece illustrations including author portrait in volume one. In fine condition.
H.G. Wells is best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne. His most notable works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).
Other Books by this Author
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"The whole thing was an affair of misty shadows": First edition of H. G. Wells' The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth
Wells, H.G.
The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1904.
First edition of Wells’ satiric utopian novel. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $275.00
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"You can live in another and a wiser fashion if you choose to think it out and work it out. You are not awake to your own power": First Edition of H.G. Wells' A Short History of the World; Signed by Him
Wells, H.G.
A Short History of the World.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.
First edition if Wells’ classic work, which Albert Einstein recommended for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilization. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by H.G. Wells on the half-title page. In near fine condition. With an original pamphlet from the publisher laid in. First editions are uncommon, signed examples exceptionally so.
Price: $4,800.00
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"There is no absolute limit to either knowledge or power": The World Set Free; Signed by H.G. Wells
Wells, H.G.
The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.
First edition, second printing, published the same month as the first. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. Boldly signed by H.G. Wells on the dedication page. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the spine tips. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,250.00
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“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings": First Edition of H.G. Wells The Invisible Man
Wells, H.G.
The Invisible Man.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1897.
First edition, first issue, with the title page printed in orange and black and pages 247 and 248 being publisher’s ads. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with some toning to the spine and wear to the extremities.
Price: $2,000.00
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“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings": First Edition of H.G. Wells The Invisible Man; Inscribed by Him to Fellow Novelist William Pett Ridge
Wells, H.G.
The Invisible Man.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1897.
First edition, first issue, with the title page printed in orange and black and pages 247 and 248 being publisher’s ads. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “W. Pett Ridge from H. G. Wells.” The recipient William Pett Ridge was a fellow novelist and friend of Wells. In 1924, novelist Edwin Pugh recalled his time with Wells and Ridge, “I see him most clearly, as he was in those days, through a blue haze of tobacco smoke. We used sometimes to travel together from Waterloo to Worcester Park on our way to spend a Saturday afternoon and evening with H. G. Wells.” Hammond B4. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice association copy.
Price: $17,500.00
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First edition of H. G. Wells' Men Like Gods; Inscribed by Him to His Mother-In-Law
Wells, H.G.
Men Like Gods.
London: Cassell and Company, 1923.
First edition of Wells’ utopian scientific fantasy. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “H.G. to his Mother in law.” The recipient M.C. Robbins, was the mother of Wells’s second wife Jane. Near fine in the original dust jacket which shows a few small chips and wear to the extremities. An excellent association.
Price: $3,000.00
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“And in friendship and still more here, in this central business of love, accident rules it seems to me almost altogether”: First Edition of The Passionate Friends; Inscribed by H.G. Wells to His Cousin
Wells, H.G.
The Passionate Friends.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1913.
First edition of this novel, which was the first introduction of Wells’s notion of an “open conspiracy” of individuals to achieve a world state through an “open conspiracy against potentates and prejudices and all the separating powers of darkness.” Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his cousin, “H.G. Wells to his cousin Jane Knight.” Bookplate of Larry McMurtry on the front pastedown. In near fine condition with light offsetting to the endpapers. A nice association and with noted provenance.
Price: $2,000.00
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First Edition of H.G. Wells' The Salvaging of Civilization; Signed by Him
Wells, H.G.
The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921.
First American edition, which preceded the British edition of of this work which addresses the possibility of a future world state . Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by H.G. Wells on the half-title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00
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"A strange disease had come upon them, and had made all the children born to them blind": First edition of H. G. Wells' The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
Wells, H.G.
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1911.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories featuring one of Wells’ best known tales, The Country of the Blind. Octavo, original blindstamped cloth, gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, engraved colored frontispiece. In very good condition, stamp to the title page. A very bright example.
Price: $300.00
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“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life": First Edition of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine: An Invention.
London: William Heinemann, 1895.
First English edition, first issue of Wells’ groundbreaking “scientific romance”- a work generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. Octavo, original cloth, front panel and spine stamped in purple with sphinx vignette. In near fine condition. First issue with first priority sixteen-page publisher’s catalogue at end. Cover artist by Ben Hardy.
Price: $5,500.00
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First Edition of H.G. Wells' Tales of Space and Time; Inscribed by Him with Two Drawings
Wells, H.G.
Tales of Space and Time.
London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, with 2 pages publisher’s advertisements at end. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “W.E. Henley with affectionate regards from H.G. Wells” along with an original drawing of Ugh-lomi and Eudena, the protagonists of A Story of the Stone Age, one of this volume’s five collected short stories. In very good condition with some toning to the spine.
Price: $9,800.00
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"The great Change has come for evermore, happiness and beauty are our atmosphere, there is peace on earth and good will to all men": First Edition of H. G. Wells' In the Days of the Comet
Wells, H.G.
In the Days of the Comet.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1906.
First edition of H. G. Wells’ classic dystopian novel. Octavo, original green blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $300.00
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First Edition of H.G. Wells' The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel; Signed by Him
Wells, H.G.
The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919.
First edition of Wells’s modern retelling of the story of Job. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by H.G. Wells on the half-title page. In very good condition with light rubbing.
Price: $475.00
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“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings": First Edition of H.G. Wells The Invisible Man
Wells, H.G.
The Invisible Man.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897.
First edition, first issue, with the title page printed in orange and black and pages 247 and 248 being publisher’s ads. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with some toning to the spine and wear to the extremities.
Price: $2,500.00
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First Edition of H.G. Wells' Washington and the Riddle of Peace
Wells, H.G.
Washington and the Riddle of Peace.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Boldly signed by H.G. Wells on the half-title page. In fine condition. Scarce and desirable signed.
Price: $1,750.00
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Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.
Japan: c. 1930.
First edition, oblong quarto, original boards. Gilt-lettered cloth, string-bound. Text in Japanese with captions in both Chinese and English. Illustrated with photographs throughout, large folding panorama of the Great Wall of China; folding map of Korea, Manchuria and portions of northeastern China. A unique record of history.
Price: $2,500.00
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First Editions of Each Book in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books; Each Bound Uniformly by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
Lang, Andrew.
The Fairy Books: Blue (1889); Red (1890); Green (1892); Yellow (1894); Pink; (1897); Grey (1900); Violet (1901); Crimson (1903); Brown (1904); Orange (1906); Olive (1907); Lilac (1910) [with The Blue Poetry Book (1891); The True Story Book (1893); The Red True Story Book (1895); The Animal Story Book (1896); The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898); The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899); The Book of Romance (1902); The Red Romance Book (1905)].
London: Longmans, Green & Company, 1889-1910.
First editions of each volume in Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books: Blue (1889); Red (1890); Green (1892); Yellow (1894); Pink; (1897); Grey (1900); Violet (1901); Crimson (1903); Brown (1904); Orange (1906); Olive (1907); Lilac (1910) (12 volumes), along with eight of his other works: The Blue Poetry Book (1891); The True Story Book (1893); The Red True Story Book (1895); The Animal Story Book (1896); The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898); The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899); The Book of Romance (1902); The Red Romance Book (1905). Bound in full leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, each volume with a different motif to the front and rear panel, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, book marks. Each volume bound with the original cloth spine and front panel. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. In near fine condition with a few volumes with some light cracking at the hinges. An exceptional set bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
Price: $13,500.00
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First Edition of The Works of Archimedes; Finely bound
Archimedes.
The Works of Archimedes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897.
First edition of the works of Archimedes. Octavo, bound in three quarters burgundy morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, gilt insignia of the Eton College coat of arms on the front and rear panels. A bookplate indicating that the book is a gift to T. F. Halfords Fremantle from E. Lyttleton, Master of Eton College, dated 1914. Apparently a graduation prize. Fremantle was killed in the Great War in 1915, age 18. Edited in Modern Notation with Introductory Chapters by T. L. Heath.
Price: $975.00
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The Complete Works of Robert Burns
Burns, Robert.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns.
Philadelphia: Gebbie and Co, 1886.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns. Octavo, 6 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels. Illustrated with 60 fine etchings and wood cuts, maps and facsimilies. In fine condition.
Price: $500.00