H.G. Wells

Name: A signed set of The Works
Brand: H.G. Wells
Price: 2200.00 GBP
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A signed set of The Works

H.G. Wells

Price Realised GBP 2,772

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WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). The Works [Atlantic Edition]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924-1927.

Signed limited edition, number 684 of 1050 copies issued for distribution in America. A handsome set of the celebrated Atlantic Edition of Wells’s works, including classics of the science fiction genre such as War of The Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and First Men In The Moon.

28 volumes, octavo (225 x 152mm). Half-titles, portrait (light creasing to a few leaves in vol. 28, a small number of short closed tears). Publisher’s dark blue half morocco over blue cloth by Stikeman & Co., lettered and decorated in gilt to spines, top edges gilt (a few spine ends slightly chipped, extremities lightly rubbed).

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