Books and Manuscripts

Wells, H.G.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
London: William Heinemann, 1896. First edition. 8vo. x, 219, (5), (32, ads) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece. Publisher's pictorial tan cloth (Currey's A binding), stamped in blind, red, and black, cocked, boards soiled and unevenly toned, spine ends frayed; all edges trimmed; light abrasion on front paste-down from removed book-plate; soiling and light foxing to text; gutter starting or split at pp. x-(1), 64-65, 80-81, 128-129, 144-145, and 160-161.Hammond B3; Well Society 8; Currey, p. 520. 

First edition of Wells's science fiction classic.