The Collected Library: Summer Reading

8vo. 12 plates including frontispiece by E. Herring. Original navy pictorial cloth stamped in gilt (spine sunned, some rubbing or spotting to covers

FIRST EDITION. Bleiler notes that, “After ‘The First Men in the Moon’, Wells’ science fiction novels are never quite the same” and that “the last and most complex [of Wells’ early scientific romances] is ‘The First Men in the Moon’”. It was also the first of Wells’ works to be adapted for film in 1919. Bleiler, Science Fiction 2335; Reginald 15026; Currey, p.518; Wells 18.