8vo (174 x 114 mm). Modern black morocco gilt; original cloth bound in at end. Provenance: Eileen Power (1889-1940), British medievalist and economic historian, and the second woman appointed Chair of Economic History at the London School of Economics (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, second issue. INSCRIBED BY WELLS: "To Eileen Power, In return for various books she didn't send me & ought to of." The Time Machine was first serialized from January to May 1895 in The New Review, with its first appearance in novel form published to coincide with the final installment's appearance, and is described as "the earliest known work of science fiction to be based on the idea of time travel" (Wells Society 4). Copies were originally issued simultaneously in cloth or wrappers. Bleiler p. 205; Currey pp. 524-25; Hammond B1.