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London : J. M. Dent & Co., 1895. First edition. One of Wells' earliest adventures in science fiction - a fallen angel struggling to cope with life in an English village.
Crown 8vo (191 x 124mm). viii,252pp. Bound in a smart recent half red morocco, preserving the original cloth spine and upper cover (the regular variant with, rather than without, the angel in gilt) at rear; top edge gilt; a few minor marks and spots, but a very good and attractive copy. Hammond B2. Locke (Spectrum) I.228.

£350

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London : Macmillan & Co., 1903. First edition. A collection of thirteen stories, including "Filmer", "The Magic Shop", "The Valley of Spiders", "The Truth about Pyecraft", "The New Accelerator", "The Stolen Body", etc.
Crown 8vo. [viii],(378),[vi] + 16pp advertisements dated September 1903. Original green cloth, blocked in blind on upper cover, and lettered in gilt across upper cover and spine; top edge gilt; endpapers lightly browned and spotted; a handful of edge spots, but a very good, bright and sound copy with only the merest hint of rubbing. Hammond C5.

£200

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London : Macmillan & Co., 1906. First edition : the uncommon variant state, with the cancel title-leaf but with the regular first issue advertisements dated August 1906. The British Library copy (with advertisements dated May) is a proof copy - the book was not in fact published until September (Locke, Science Fiction First Editions, pp.94-96).
Post 8vo. viii,(306),[vi],[8]pp. Bound in a smart recent half green morocco, preserving the original cloth upper panel and spine at rear; top edge gilt; a very good copy in an attractive binding.

SOLD

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London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. First edition. A young woman rejects surburban conventions for science, socialism, suffragettes and living in sin - and Wells fictionalises his relationship with his mistress Amber Reeves (1887-1981), who gave birth to his daughter later in 1909. Macmillan flatly declined to publish the book and Canon Lambert railed "I would just as soon send a daughter of mine to a house infected with diphtheria or typhoid fever as put that book into her hands".
Crown 8vo. 352pp. Original brown cloth, ruled in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt on upper cover, lettered across spine in gilt; very minor wear at head and tail; mild tanning of endpapers; a few slight marks, but a very good copy. With the contemporary bookplate of the mathematician Philip Worsley Wood (1880-1959), designed by P. Boddy and dated 1909.

£125

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