WELLS (H.G.)
The Time Machine - An Invention, first edition, half-title with advertisements on verso, 16-page publisher's catalogue at end, some spotting and browning to endpapers, fore-edges with slight soiling, ink ownership inscription on front free endpapers, publisher's oatmeal cloth, purple lettering and sphinx device, rubbed, slightly faded, edges knocked [Wells 4], 8vo, Heinemann, 1895
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Footnotes
- "The earliest known work of science fiction to be based on the idea of time travel" (Wells Society).
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