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Marriott Watson H.B.. The Adventurers A Tale of Treasure Trove. Harper & Brothers, London, 1900.
Price: US$5.12 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: All proceeds go to the charity SOL (Services for Open Learning) - an educational charity (registered charity number: 1019182). Please feel free to ask us any questions. A well worn copy , spine in very poor condition , clear text
Seller: SOLBOOKS, BARNSTAPLE, United Kingdom
H.G.Wells. Tales of Space and Time. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900.
Price: US$78.46 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1900. No Edition Remarks. 358 pages. Half bound green leather with marbled paper covered boards. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Severe cracking to hinges causing front board to be detached from text block. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Marking to half-title page. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Front board detached from spine. Light tanning and chipping to leather to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
H G Wells. Tales of Space and Time. Leather bound.. Harper & Brothers, London, 1900.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st printing. Half calf maroon leather with marbled boards and end papers. Wear to extremities and fading to top of front, spine and back cover.
Seller: Caldono Books, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Wells (H.G.).. Tales of Space and Time. Harper & Brothers, 1900 [i.e. 1899], 1900.
Price: US$336.23 + shipping
Description: Cloth quite heavily soiled and darkened at spine, a number of small stains internally, gutter cracked in places, end-papers browned and a little foxed, but a very good copy; bookplate of George Lazarus, ownership signature on front free end-paper. Scarce H.G. Wells Society Bibliography 16
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
H.G.Wells. TALES OF SPACE AND TIME. Harper & Brothers, 1900.
Price: US$433.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth boards,pictorial front,titles to spine.Spine lightly faded,boards rubbed at extreameties,appears a little grubby,no torn cloth.Clean tidy internals,stitching somewhat loose.Pages are untrimmed.Quite an acceptable copy.This is the first edition of H. G. Wells' collection of 5 of his best science fiction stories, TALES OF SPACE AND TIME, published in New York and London by Harper and Brothers in 1900. The stories included are "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of theStone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come," and "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" These were never before published. Each one of these stories shows us Wells' great creative imagination at work.
Seller: THE BOOK SHOP, HASTINGS, HBN, New Zealand
Wells, H. G.. Tales of Space and Time. Harper & Brothers, 1900.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo., pp. 358 + 2 of adverts. FInely bound in recent full burgundy morocco, gilt titles to spine, ruled border to covers, top edge gilt, publishers cloth bound in at back. Very tight, sold book with very light marginal soiling to page edges. Near Fine. Shipped in a box, not a padded envelope.Price reduced multiple times!!
Seller: Dubliners Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. Tales of Space and Time. Harper & Brothers Publishers, London, 1900.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.K. edition of this fantasy and science fiction collection of 3 short stores and 2 novellas from H. G. Wells. Published in 1900, with 1899 on the copyright page. No jacket, as issued. Bound in brown cloth over boards with double rule, gilded lettering, and design to the front and brown lettering to the spine. Spine slightly faded, scuffing to corners, bumped head/tail of spine, and general rubbing. Rough cut long and lower edges. Cracked at pastedown/ffep and ahead of page one, but all holding firm and tightly bound. Infrequent marginal spotting. Overall very good plus. Pages:(6) 358 (2) Dimensions:7â x 5â x 1½.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. Tales of Space and Time. Harper & Brothers Publishers, London UK, 1900.
Price: US$563.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition collection of five tales of space and time by H. G. Wells in one volume. Original brown cloth boards with rubbed gilt lettering and imprinted borders and illustrations. Wear to the extremities. Contents are clean. Previous owners signature on front paste down. 2cm closed tear on p232. 358 pp plus 2 pages of publishers advertisements.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Wells, H. G.. Tales of Space and Time. Harper and Brothers, London, 1900.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Beige cloth printedin gilt and deep red on the spine and upper board. Spine a little darkened, light wear to the tips and edges, else this is a very good copy. There are reports that this title was actually printed in 1899, in spite of the 1900 imprint. Two page publisher's catalogue in the rear. Bookplates on the front free endpaper and on the front pastedown. Wells BIbliography #16. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. Tales of Space and Time. Harper, 1900.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light brown cloth. Bookplate. Spine little marked, else nice copy. Said to have been published in 1899, notwithstanding the date of 1900 in the book.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. 3 p.l., 358, [2]ads. tan cloth, lettered in gilt & decorated in dark brown (slight spotting/soiling to cloth, otherwise very good). J.E.Barton bookplate. ownership entry on title of Desmond Crichton. First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Wells, H. G.. TALES OF SPACE AND TIME. Harpers, 1900.
Price: US$1363.75 + shipping
Description: TALES OF SPACE AND TIME, Harpers, London, 1900, first edition, second blank end-paper neatly excised, some scattered foxing to the fore edge, else a tight, bright vg+/near fine copy in the publishers original cloth. Most uncommon in such nice condition. Contains some of the authors best works: THE CRYSTAL EGG, THE STAR, A STORY OF THE STONE AGE, A STORY OF THE DAYS TO COME & THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. TALES OF SPACE AND TIME. , 1900.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: [a handsome copy] London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown. First Edition of this collection of five fantastic tales: "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of the Stone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come" and "The Man Who Could Work Miracles." "The Crystal Egg," for example, involves Martians -- like THE WAR OF THE WORLDS; an antiquarian shopkeeper discovers that by peering into a certain crystal egg at an angle of precisely 137 degrees, he can see, and ultimately communicate with, Martians who apparently sent the egg as a sort of Eye on Earth. Said communication ends when the shopkeeper is discovered dead in his shop, clutching the egg in his hand. This British edition, though dated 1900, was actually published in late 1899 (the British Library copy was received on November 21st); although the American edition is dated 1899, it is considered to have been issued later than this one. This is a just-about-fine, attractive copy, with scarcely any of the cover soil that usually afflicts this light-colored binding. Currey p. 524; Hammond C4; Wells Soc. 16. Housed in a morocco-backed clamshell case.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Wells (H.G.).. Tales of Space and Time. Harper & Brothers, 1900 [i.e. 1899], 1900.
Price: US$3026.05 + shipping
Description: Binding with some lean, spine darkened and somewhat rubbed, corners bruised, otherwise a nice copy; ownership inscription on fly-leaf. With the bookplate and ownership inscription of the authors friend Maurice Baring with an Autograph Postcard initialled by the author mounted on the front free end-paper: ". I am so glad you like the book ." Scarce H.G. Wells Society Bibliography 16 A delightful association copy.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom