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Price: US$50.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. olive cloth gilt, teg, else uncut (rebound with replacement endpapers, occ. spots and toning, else clean & bright throughout); pp. [x], 118 (last blank), 2 (blank)], 16 (pubs. cat)], with title page illustration. A very good copy in a new binding.The author's first published book of fiction, a series of essays and stories original published in the Pall Mall gazette in 1893 and 1894.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
WELLS, H. G.. SELECT CONVERSATIONS WITH AN UNCLE. JOHN LANE, 1895.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: A NEAR FINE SECOND EDITION with Bodley Head on spine. FROM THE LIBRARY OF AUTHOR LARRY MCMURTRY with his bookplate.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. The first literary title by Wells and published in a very limited run. Original lavender cloth and illustrated title page, 16 pages of ads, with pages 5-6 excised as usual by the publisher, due to a printing error. Very Good, top spine end cloth showing moderate wear, cloth soiled, spine darkened.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
H G Wells. Select Conversations with an Uncle. John Lane, 1895.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: John Lane, London, 1895. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. The first American edition, published by John Lane and Company and Merriam in the United States in 1895. ( with catalog of new titles from Merriam to rear of book, and Merriam listed as copyright entity. Top edge gilt. A Very Good copy of the book with gilt top edge, lightly bumped corners and wear with small loss to both ends of the spine
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$226.18 + shipping
Description: 1st English Edition. 117, [1] + 16 pg List of Books in Belles Lettrespp. 12mo. Silver green watered silk covered boards with some light staining and rubbing. Worn at spine edges/ends and corners. Corners and ends of spine bumped. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine darkened. Square discolored spot on rear endpapers. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Scattered foxing on a few pages through out. Slight cracking between front free endpaper and fly leaf. near very good G. H Wells and Wells Society #3. Number Three the Mayfair Set. "Contains 12 conversations and two short stories entitled 'A Misunderstood Artist' and 'The Man with a Nose'. This is Wells' first literary publication in book form.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Wells. H. G.. Select Conversations With and Uncle. John Lane, London, 1895.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by John Lane and Company and Merriam in the United States in 1895. ( with catalog of new titles from Merriam to rear of book, and Merriam listed as copyright entity. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy of the book with just a touch of light wear and a trace of fade to the spine. An uncommonly attractive copy.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Wells (H.G.).. Select Conversations with an Uncle (now extinct). John Lane,, 1895.
Price: US$471.42 + shipping
Description: Pictorial title-page Binding somewhat rubbed and a little soiled, some foxing internally, but a very good copy; small label removed from front pastedown. Scarce H.G. Wells Society Bibliography 3 The authors first non-scientific work and one of about 650 copies published as number III of The Mayfair Set, comprising pieces from The Pall Mall Gazette. Most unusually, this copy does not have pages 5-6 of the advertisements excised by the publisher, proving the point that Edmund Gosses name was indeed printed as "Goose (Edmund)". Top edge gilt, others uncut. Sixteen pages publishers advertisements at end
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Wells (H.G.).. Select Conversations with an Uncle (now extinct). John Lane,, 1895.
Price: US$471.42 + shipping
Description: Pictorial title-page Binding somewhat rubbed at extremities, gutter cracked between half-title and title, some foxing, but a very good copy; booksellers small label removed on front pastedown, inscription on fly-leaf. Scarce H.G. Wells Society Bibliography 3 The authors first non-scientific work and one of about 650 copies published as number III of The Mayfair Set, comprising pieces from The Pall Mall Gazette. With pages 5-6 of the advertisements excised by the publisher as usual, Edmund Gosses name having been printed as "Goose (Edmund)". Top edge gilt, others uncut. Fourteen pages publishers advertisements at end
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, signed by Wells on first free endpage, has very slight lean to spine with faint bowing to front board, previous owner's plate to front pastedown and inscription to second endpage, slight bumps to spine ends and corners with boards starting to peek through at corners and a touch of fraying, faint sunning to spine, and some slight shelfwear to edges, otherwise a solid VG copy in Near Fine clear protective dustjacket.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$2501.39 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, title-page engraved by T.H.T., pp. [x], 117, 16 (ads, dated 1895), foolscap 8vo, original silver-pink watered silk, backstrip lettered in gilt and darkened with rubbing at ends and along joints, covers a little soiled, t.e.g., others untrimmed, good. A family presentation copy of Wells' third book - his first to contain fictional work - inscribed by the author on the blank preceding half-title, to 'M.C. Robbins, from H.G. Wells'; beneath the inscription, Wells has drawn a sketch of waves lapping against a house, dated to 'Sandgate, Xmas 1898'. The recipient is his mother-in-law, and its form speaks of the slightly formal relationship that was still being maintained between them (later inscriptions convey more familiarity and affection) - Wells had moved in 1898, with Robbins' daughter (his second wife, Jane), to Sandgate in Kent. One of around 650 copies in the edition; as is commonly found, the third leaf of ads has been removed to banish the error of spelling Edmund Gosse as 'Edmund Goose'. (Wells 3: 'Wells Society' 3)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Wells, H. G.. SELECT CONVERSATIONS WITH AN UNCLE / *** NICE ASSOCIATION COPY ***. John Lane, 1895.
Price: US$4540.75 + shipping
Description: *** NICE ASSOCIATION COPY ***SELECT CONVERSATIONS WITH AN UNCLE, John Lane, 1895, first edition, some tanning to the spine, rubbing to the spine extremities and fore edge corner tips, light soiling to covers, else just about a vg copy in the publishers original silver cloth binding of this, the authors first work of fiction preceding THE TIME MACHINE. Furthermore, the 3rd leaf of ads oft cited as missing because Edward Gosse's name is misspelled as Edward Goose, is here present.This copy bears the bookplate of one of Wells' contemporaries, Egerton Castle, and also has his name stamp in red very tastefully to the head of the upper margin of the title page. Directly below this, Wells has SIGNED his name. Only two SIGNED copies of this title has been in auction over the last 38 years. Very scarce thus. One of approximately 650 copies printed.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.