The Works of. The Time Machine. The Wonderful Visit. The Island of Doctor Moreau. The Sleeper Awakes. The Invisible Man. The War of the Worlds. Anticipations, and Other Papers. The Food of the Gods. The Sea Lady. The First Men in the Moon. The Wheels of Chance. Love and Mr. Lewisham. Kipps. A Modern Utopia. In the Days of the Comet. The Undying Fire, and Philosophical and Theological Speculations. Tono-Bungay. Ann Veronica, and Boon. The New Macchiavelli. Marriage. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman. Socialism and the Family. The History of Mr. Polly, and Bealby. The Passionate Friends, and Three Essays. The Research Magnificent. XX. The War in the Air, and Other War Forebodings. The World Set Free. Mr. Britling. Joan and Peter. The Story of a Gr

Published by New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1924-28, 1924

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Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United KingdomBow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)

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Atlantic edition, limited edition, no. 167 of the US edition of 1,050 sets, signed by the Author in volume I, twenty-eight volumes, 8vo. Photographic frontispiece to each volume. Original buckram backed boards, all but two of the volumes still with their slipcases, and eleven volumes with some or most of their rather browned tissue wrappers. Several slipcases with degrees of wear and cracking - two lacking one edge, and some light marking to spines, but overall a very well preserved set. A further 620 sets were sold in the UK.

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The Works of. The Time Machine. The Wonderful Visit. The Island of Doctor Moreau. The Sleeper Awakes. The Invisible Man. The War of the Worlds. Anticipations, and Other Papers. The Food of the Gods. The Sea Lady. The First Men in the Moon. The Wheels of Chance. Love and Mr. Lewisham. Kipps. A Modern Utopia. In the Days of the Comet. The Undying Fire, and Philosophical and Theological Speculations. Tono-Bungay. Ann Veronica, and Boon. The New Macchiavelli. Marriage. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman. Socialism and the Family. The History of Mr. Polly, and Bealby. The Passionate Friends, and Three Essays. The Research Magnificent. XX. The War in the Air, and Other War Forebodings. The World Set Free. Mr. Britling. Joan and Peter. The Story of a Gr
Author
WELLS, H.G.
Publisher
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1924-28
Publication year
1924
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Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB)

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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association…

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Literature, Topography & Travel, Maps & Atlases, Geology, Fine Bindings & Fore Edge Paintings, General Antiquarian, Science, Natural History, Sussex, Bloomsbury

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Bow Windows Bookshop Ltd.

175 High Street
Lewes, United Kingdom BN7 1YE