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- New York: The Merriam Company, 1895
New York: The Merriam Company, 1895. First American Edition. First printing. Demi-octavo. Pale green, gilt-pictorial cloth; top edge gile, fore and bottom edges uncut; 195pp + 3 unnumbered pages of ads. Old repair to front hinge; spine slightly spotted and sunned, with some dulling to gilt; a Very Good copy overall. Laid-in to this copy is a 4-pp advertising brochure for Merriam's "Violet Series," which included works by Anthony Hope, R.L. Stevenson, Marie Corelli, and John Oliver Hobbes.
First American edition of Wells' first published volume of literary work – following two scientific text-books, and published in England one day before The Time Machine. The twelve sketches collected here were all previously published in the Pall Mall Gazette, for which Wells had served as dramatic critic beginning in 1894. WELLS 3. CURREY p.522, calling for 16pp of ads dated 1895; our copy contains only 5pp ads, the first of which is printed on verso of final text leaf.
First American edition of Wells' first published volume of literary work – following two scientific text-books, and published in England one day before The Time Machine. The twelve sketches collected here were all previously published in the Pall Mall Gazette, for which Wells had served as dramatic critic beginning in 1894. WELLS 3. CURREY p.522, calling for 16pp of ads dated 1895; our copy contains only 5pp ads, the first of which is printed on verso of final text leaf.