8vo. Half-title, frontispiece, 1p. advertisement for The Time Machine and 32pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original publisher’s tan pictorial cloth, blind-stamped publisher’s monogram to lower cover, uncut and partially unopened (soiling, endpapers spotted, some slight wear to spine ends, spine panel darkened).

 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Wells's satire on religion and human nature, presented as an adventure novel (Bleiler, 2327). In Currey's priority (A) binding with publisher's blind-stamped monogram on lower cover and 32 pp. publisher's catalogue inserted at end; with page one headed THE MAXMAN, and page [32] headed OUT OF DUE SEASON. Bleiler 2327; Currey, 520; Chappell, p.5; Wells 7.