Search results for: 'WELLS, H. G'
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WELLS, H. G. The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance.London : 1897
First edition, first impression. With Wells's fine contemporary presentation inscription to the half title page, "W. W. Jacobs from H. G. Wells". With the recipient's embroidered silk bookmark laid in. An excellent association: Jacobs (1863-1943) was a close contemporary of Wells, the highest earning writer of his day, and a superb technician. His masterful... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 67963
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WELLS, H. G. Mankind in the Making.1903
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To W. W. Jacobs This little tale of Serious Reading from H.G.W." Beside this inscription Wells has drawn a sketch of two men loading cargo onto a ship one of whom bears the initials WWJ. An excellent association: Jacobs was a close contemporary of Wells, the highest earning... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 49564
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WELLS, H. G. First & Last Things.London : 1908
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in pencil, "Henry Newbolt, from the author. Nov. 1908." Between 1900 and 1905 Newbolt was the editor of the Monthly Review, where he enthusiastically reviewed Wells's The Sea Lady in 1902. A flattered Wells invited Newbolt to join the Co-efficients... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 109521
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WELLS, H. G. The War in the AirLondon : 1908
First edition, first impression. With Wells's fine contemporary presentation inscription to the half title page, "W. W. Jacobs from H. G. Wells". An excellent association: Jacobs was a close contemporary of Wells, the highest earning writer of his day, and a superb technician. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 49561
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WELLS, H. G. Kipps.1905
First edition, first impression, primary state of the ads dated 16.08.05. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To W. W. Jacobs from H. G. Wells". An excellent association: Jacobs was a close contemporary of Wells, the highest earning writer of his day, and a superb technician. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 49562
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WELLS, H. G. The Research Magnificent.London : 1915
First edition, first impression. Scarce in the dust jacket. The Research Magnificent was written during Wells's affair with Rebecca West, and some of its themes may have been attempts to address that troubled relationship. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 87347
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WELLS, H. G. Floor Games.London : 1911
First edition, first impression, with the scarce dust jacket. Written for the author's two sons, aged 10 and 8 at the time of publication, Floor Games explores the possibilities of imaginative play, city building, exploration, and war.
Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 126948
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WELLS, H. G. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War.London : 1916
First edition, first impression. This is a collection of 12 articles in which Wells offers his predictions on the political and economic changes that will come to the world in the wake of the First World War. Wells "boldly opened What is Coming?, a new book of prophesy and forecast, by invoking his modest scientific training again as one of the most... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 137670
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WELLS, H. G. Floor Games.London : 1911
First edition, first impression. Written for the author's two sons, Floor Games explores the possibilities of imaginative play, city building, exploration, and war. Rare in the dust jacket. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 90331
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WELLS, H. G. The Invisible Man.London : 1897
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Wells to his literary mentor on the half-title, "W. E. Henley from H. G. Wells (with apologies)". William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), poet, critic, journalist and influential editor of the National Observer and other papers, "had a gift for finding and encouraging new talent" (ODNB). He published works by... Learn More£18,000.00Stock Code: 115742
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WELLS, H. G. Kipps.London : 1905
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wells to Ford Madox Ford on the half title: "To F. M. Hueffer with affection from H. G. Wells". A superb association linking two of the heaviest hitters of Edwardian fiction. Hueffer - who changed his name during the War to the less Teutonic sounding Ford Madox Ford - was part of the coterie... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 28390
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WELLS, H. G. (intro.); MORE, Sir Thomas. Utopia.London : September 1908
First edition of More's Utopia with Wells's introduction, this copy inscribed by Wells incorporating one of his "picshuas", a sketch of a baby-faced flower denominated (somewhat in the manner of Edward Lear's nonsense botany), "To sketch Utopiana Grandiflora, from H. G. Wells". This edition appeared as part Blackie & Son's Red Letter Library series,... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 137554
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.New York : 1924
The Atlantic Edition, deluxe issue bound in half morocco, number 618 of 1,050 sets signed by the author in volume I. "The text throughout is read and revised by the author, who has written a special preface to each volume as well as a general introduction to the set" (Wells, p. 61). Scribners offered the set in regular cloth bindings but also as here... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 121630
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WELLS, H. G. The First Men in the Moon.Indianapolis : 1901
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "To Miss Healey with kindest regards from H. G. Wells". Elizabeth Healey was a fellow student of Wells at the Normal School (later Royal College) of Science, South Kensington, London, and a long-term friend and correspondent. The American edition of The First... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 138945
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WELLS, H. G. Tales of Space and Time.London & New York : 1900
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author with one of his characteristic "picshuas", a caricature portrait on the first blank: "H. Hick from H. G. Wells", with a small sketch of a medicine bottle with label reading "To be taken as required" below. Dr Henry Hick came to know Wells through his old school friend George Gissing. When Wells... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 115293
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WELLS, H. G. When The Sleeper Wakes.London and New York : 1899
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Henry Hick, from H. G. Wells". Dr Henry Hick came to know Wells through his old school friend George Gissing. When Wells became ill on a cycling holiday in 1898, he recuperated at Hicks's house in New Romney, where he was visited by Edmund Gosse and Henry James. The following... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 115303
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.New York : 1924-7
The Atlantic Edition, number 605 of 1,670 sets signed by the author. "The text throughout is read and revised by the author, who has written a special preface to each volume as well as a general introduction to the set" (Wells, p. 61).
Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 128513
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.New York : 1924-7
A handsome set of the Atlantic Edition. Signed limited edition, deluxe issue, number 711 of 1,050 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of Volume I and released for distribution in America, of which 50 were reserved for presentation.
A further 620 sets were released by T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd, in Great Britain and Ireland, 20 of which... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 143381
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WELLS, H. G. The Time Machine.London : 1895
First UK edition, first issue (with the 16-page publisher's catalogue starting with "The Manxman", and requisite binding points). It is preceded, earlier in the same month, by an American edition rife with errors - Heinemann's was the first appearance of the definitive text.
In 1888 Wells had written a series of articles concerning time travel... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 145282
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.London : 1924-7
Signed limited "Atlantic" edition, the preferred "London" issue, number 491 of 620 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of vol. I, for sale and distribution in Britain. A further 1,050 sets were produced and signed for the American issue, and are by far the more common of the two issues. The Atlantic edition is the finest collected edition... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 129483
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.New York : 1924
The Atlantic Edition, one of a limited edition of 1,050 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf of which this is number 998, and with new prefaces written especially for this edition by the author. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 122488
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WELLS, H. G. The Time Machine.London : 1895
First UK edition, first issue (with the 16-page publisher's catalogue starting with "The Manxman", and requisite binding points). It is preceded, earlier in the same month, by an American edition rife with errors - Heinemann's was the first appearance of the definitive text.
In 1888 Wells had written a series of articles concerning time travel... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 145281
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STEPHENS, Henry Pottinger, & Ernest Wells, as "POT" and "SWEARS". The Scarlet City.London : 1899
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper to notable book collector Samuel Garcia Asher (c. 1868-1938) "To Dear old Sam, from his old pal 'Swears' Ernest Wells, 'Pot' H. P. Stephens"; and with his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown.
Uncommon: WorldCat locates only nine copies... Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 142376
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ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo; H. G. Wells; Joseph Pennell; Max Beerbohm et al. The Butterfly.[London : 1899-1900]
The complete New Series of the literary magazine The Butterfly. The monthly magazine first appeared in May 1893 and the first series lasted until February 1894. A New Series, published by Grant Richards, was begun in March 1899 and was discontinued after 12 issues in February 1900. The magazine contains writing by Laurence Housman, and illustrations... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 126971
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COBURN, Alvin Langdon. H. G. Wells.London & New York : 1913
Coburn's book of portraits "Men of Mark" (followed some years later by More Men of Mark) features 33 portraits of artists, thinkers and writers such as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Henry James, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, William Butler Yeats etc. Coburn's introductory text provides a running commentary on his... Learn More£120.00Stock Code: 100386
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FRAZER, James George. The Golden Bough.London : 1890
First edition of Frazer's ground-breaking study of comparative religion. "Frazer's true subject is nothing less than humanity's long upward struggle towards an understanding of itself and the world. In Frazer's view that movement towards the light began in earliest times with the priest-king employing magic to compel the gods to do his bidding, followed... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 138045
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BLOCH, Ivan Stanislavovich. Der Krieg. Uebersetzung. Des russischen Werkes des Autors: Der zukünftige Krieg in seiner technischen, volkswirtschaftlichen und politischen Bedeutung. Johann von Bloch.Berlin : 1898
First edition in German, first published in Russian the year previously with a French translation issued the same year. This copy inscribed by Bloch on the half-title of volume I; "Herr Oberst Rohr vom Verfasser", and subsequently by the state librarian recording the gift of the set from Rohr's widow just two months after the outbreak of World War I.... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 85050
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COBURN, Alvin Langdon. G. K. Chesterton.London : 1904
Proof before letters (no printed plate number or facsimile signature). G. K. Chesterton titled to the foot of the mount in Coburn's hand. Tipped on to a much larger mount than that published in "Men of Mark".
Coburn's first book of portraits "Men of Mark" was published in 1911 (it was followed some years later by More Men of Mark) features 33... Learn More£700.00Stock Code: 79850
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BLOCH, Jan Gotlib. Der Krieg. Uebersetzung.Berlin : 1898
First edition in German, first published in Russian the year previously with a French translation issued the same year. Never fully translated into English, an "abridgement," actually a full translation of the final volume, the General Conclusions, was published in 1899 with an introduction by W. T. Stead under the title "Is War Impossible?"
Bloch's... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 46965
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord; JONES, Alred Garth (illus.) In Memoriam.London : 1901
First edition illustrated by Jones, signed limited issue, number 93 of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the illustrator, and printed on "O.W." paper. Alfred Garth Jones was a popular illustrator known in France and the US as much as in the UK whose work was used in several notable publications, including works by H. G. Wells, John Milton and Arthur... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 117156
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COBURN, Alvin Langdon. Men of Mark.London & New York : 1913
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the artist "To Hugh from Alvin, In grateful remembrance of January 14th - 24th 1935." Coburn's first book of portraits of the great and the good (it was followed some years later by More Men of Mark) features 33 portraits of artists, thinkers and writers such as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Henry James,... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 78011
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COBURN, Alvin Langdon. Theodore Roosevelt.London : 1907
Proof before letters (no printed plate number or facsimile signature). Theodore Roosevelt titled to the foot of the mount in Coburn's hand. Printed on slightly heavier paper and tipped on to a much larger mount than that published in "Men of Mark".
Coburn's first book of portraits "Men of Mark" was published in 1911 (it was followed some years... Learn More£700.00Stock Code: 79851
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COBURN, Alvin Langdon. J. M. Barrie.London : 1909
Proof before letters (no printed plate number or facsimile signature). J. M. Barrie titled to the foot of the mount in Coburn's hand. Tipped on to a much larger mount than that published in "Men of Mark". Coburn's first book of portraits "Men of Mark" was published in 1911 (it was followed some years later by More Men of Mark) features 33 portraits... Learn More£700.00Stock Code: 79862
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BENNEY, Mark, pseud. of Henry Ernest Degras. Low Company.London : 1936
First edition of this fascinating memoir of a British burglar turned University of Chicago sociologist. Coming from London's underclass Benney chronicles his desperate childhood and his experiences in the Soho underworld between the wars, as he built his reputation as "The man who committed a hundred burglaries". Scarce in jacket.
Degras (1910-1973)... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 142121
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NESBIT, Edith. The Story of the Amulet.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, of the concluding work in Nesbit's children's trilogy. Preceded by Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet, Nesbit's time-travelling narrative is notable for including a trip into the future, featuring Nesbit's vision of a socialist utopia in which H. G. Wells is venerated as a reformer. Nesbit was one of... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140035
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NESBIT, Edith. The Literary Sense.London : 1903
First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author to her son, "To Paul Bland from his mother E. Nesbit Bland. Oct 11 1903". Paul Cyril Bland (1880-1940) was Nesbit's first child, and the dedicatee of The Railway Children (1906).
The Literary Sense is a collection of short stories described by H. G. Wells as capturing the "unreality... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 144995
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CONRAD, Joseph. Victory.London : 1915
First UK edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front endpaper, "To Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin with great affection from J.C. 1915". Sir Sidney Colvin had been Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge and Keeper in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum between 1884 and 1912. He was introduced to Conrad by... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 93580
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HOLDEN, Inez. To the Boating,London : 1945
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To Dokter Hell, from Inez Holden, August 1950". Beatrice Inez Holden (1903-1974) was a British author and journalist whose work was admired by the likes of Graham Greene and Anthony Powell. A glamorous socialite, Holden became a close friend and lover to George Orwell after... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 137337
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HOLDEN, Inez. Born Old, Died Young.London : 1932
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed to her mother on the front free endpaper "To Mummy, with best love from Inez, March 1931", the date amended in another ink into 1932. This science fiction title, depicting the "giddy antics of the roaring twenties" (Scholes), is Holden's second book.
Beatrice Inez Holden (1903-1974)... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 144950
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BLUNDEN, Edmund. The Waggoner and other Poems.London : 1920
First edition, second issue. Of an edition of 500, 250 copies were bound in purple cloth for immediate issue, 100 sets of sheets were sent to NY for Knopf's American edition, and the remaining 150 bound up in green cloth later in 1920. Extremely uncommon in jacket in either issue. Blunden's first trade publication, The Waggoner was issued with the encouragement... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 70521
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HARRISSON, Tom. Savage Civilisation.New York : 1937
First US edition, same year as the UK first. Uncommon, Harrisson's first book of anthropology based on the work of the Oxford expedition to the New Hebrides, for which he was officially the ornithologist; "When the rest of the Oxford party left Santo Island for home in 1934, Harrisson got to Malekula, where cannibalism was still widespread. Unarmed,... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 51720
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PIPER, W. W. & W. D. F. Vincent. The Art of the Fitting Room:London : c.1910
First edition. Detailed study of the "intricate and difficult subject" of trying on and fitting, the adjusting of the final fit across the full range ladies' garments. Includes numerous cutting diagrams, together with images of the fitting rooms at Swears & Wells, and accoutrement, a fitting table for skirts, folding mirrors, a range of dummies and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 145544
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ORDNANCE SURVEY. [England - Kent]1819
A truly superb, accurate and informative ordnance survey map of the county of Kent, together with the eastern regions of both Surrey and Sussex. The map is neatly dissected into 24 linen backed squares, and conveys an extraordinary amount of depth and detail to the regions that it covers. Parks, stately homes, roads, rivers, lakes, railways, copses,... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 66228
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CUMBERLAND, Richard. The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays.London : 1786-1788
First edition of the first four volumes of Cumberland's Observer, comprising 125 essays. A fifth volume with a further 27 essays followed in 1790. "Although Cumberland will largely be remembered as a playwright, he was more than merely a man of letters. His novel Arundel (1789), written in epistolary form, begs comparison with Samuel Richardson's Sir... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 106964
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LINDSAY, Jack. Dionysos.London : [1925]
First edition, sole issue, number 185 of 500 copies only signed by the author.
"Lindsay extolled lyricism and colour imagery like that of de la Mare, W. H. Davies, and the Sitwells, the painting of Delacroix, Cézanne, and Turner, and the music of Beethoven and Wagner. His egotistical manifesto Dionysus (1928) demonstrated the early influences... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 142592
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ROTHENSTEIN, William. Twenty-Four Portraits.London : 1920
First edition, first impression of this collection of twenty-four portraits or authors, artists, and intellectuals by William Rothenstein, including Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, André Gide, Thomas Hardy, T. E. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells. Provenance: from the library of Conrad collector Stanley J. Seeger, with his bookplate. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 84657
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BERKELEY, Anthony, as Francis Iles. Before the Fact.London : 1932
First edition, first impression; rare in the jacket, which prints Gollancz's sensational list of the possible identities of "Francis Iles", including E. M. Forster, R. Austin Freeman, Patrick Hamilton, Aldous Huxley, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Eden Phillpotts, Osbert Sitwell, Hugh Walpole and H. G. Wells. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 86219
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ALDISS, Brian - BREEN, James. The Planetary Worlds:London : 1854
First and only edition, Brian Aldiss's copy, with his ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A unique association copy.
Brian Adliss (1925-2017), an English author, is best known for his science fiction novels and short stories, greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells. He also edited a number of anthologies, notably... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 143610
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FORD, Ford Madox [formerly Ford Hermann Hueffer]. The Heart of the Country:London : 1906
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Marwood from Ford Madox Hueffer 9th May 1906". Arthur Marwood (1868-1916), the recipient, was a highly significant figure in Ford's life: "after Madox Brown, Conrad, and James, he was to become the most important man in Ford's... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 122155
