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H. G. Wells. The Dream. The Macmillan Company, 1924.
Price: US$7.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York, 1924; red cloth covered boards; corners and spine edges bumped and scuffed; white patch of discoloration on rear board; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name on free front end paper; Interior is clean and unmarked; 318 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
WELLS, H. G.. The Dream. Macmillan, New York, 1924.
Price: US$14.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in red buckram, sans DW; t.e.g.; previous owners name on front paste down; 318pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. The Dream. MacMillan Company, New York, USA, 1924.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wells, H.G. THE DREAM New York, USA; MacMillan Company 1924 VG/NA 318pp. 12mo. Red publisher's boards with gilt titles on front and spine are soiled with worn edges, bummed corners, and rubbed extremities. Gilt top edge and deckled fore edge. Edges are soiled. Binding is cocked and separated from cloth’s spine, but otherwise still attached to boards. Binding is loose throughout with minor cracking down spine at title page. Pages are age toned with lightly faded but clear text. Periodic creased corners throughout, and minor soiling on pages 60 - 62. This book is in very good condition for its age.
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
Wells, H.G.. The Dream. MacMillan & Co LTD, New York, 1924.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: A novel. VG without DJ; owner's sign I.C.; pencil writing on FEP
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. THE DREAM. MacMillan, New York, 1924., 1924.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 12 mo., hardcover, VG in red boards with gilt lettering. First edition. Top pages edged in gilt. 318 pp. The novel takes place 2000 years in the future when the principle character relates his life as a poor person in early 20th century that he experienced in a dream.
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. The Dream. MacMillan & Co LTD, New York, 1924.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: G-VG without DJ, red cloth covers lightly soiled at edges
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
wells, H.G.. The Dream. Macmillan Co., New York, 1924.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in red cloth. Bit of soiling to the boards. Ink on the cloth of the head and foot of the spine has faded 1/8". The novel takes place 2000 years in the future when the principle character relates his life as a poor person in early 20th century that he experienced in a dream.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
WELLS, H. G.. The Dream. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo. Original red cloth over boards with gilt lettering at front cover and spine, gilt top edge. Very good, spine ends and corners bumped, some spotting to front cover, light foxing to edges of book block, non-authorial gift inscription at front free end paper, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
H.G. Wells. The Dream. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original indigo cloth with gilt title and top foreedge. "1924" on both title and copyright pages, but accompanied by "1923" on copyright page to indicate previous edition published in England. A novel by the author of The Time Machine. Tiny black stain on front edge. Very mild rubbing to the spine edges.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G./ Herbert George. The Dream. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company.1924. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with gold gilt lettering/rule, front board bordered in blind, top edge gilt, 318 pages. A very good copy with light edge wear and light dust soiling to the page edges in a chipped significantly to the top right corner of front panel and to the bottom right corner of front flap, plus a few smaller chips such as to the spine heel Dust Wrapper with a 3/4" tear to the bottom edge of the front panel, and a small spot stain to the lower left corner of the rear panel not as bad as it sounds . See photos .LR 2/5E
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. The Dream. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$83.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [4], v, [3], 3-318 pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and on the spine; top edge gilt. Ahearn APG 103g. A handsome copy, lacking the dust jacket. A Very Good+ book with faint evidence of bookplate removal on the free front endpaper.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
WELLS, H. G.. Dream: A Novel.. Macmillan, New York, 1924.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: vi, 318 pp. 8vo, original cloth. First American edition, published the same year as the British. Bleiler p. 205. Bookplate; some minor fading of gilt-stamping on the front cover; light wear to the extremities; very good.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. The Dream. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 318 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An important book. Bleiler 2345; Wells Society 91; Hammond A18
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. THE DREAM: A NOVEL. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] [1-2] 3-318, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g. First U.S. edition. A late, but major Wells fantasy. Twenty centuries in the future a tourist cuts his hand in the ruins of the "Ages of Confusion." In a fever induced dream he experiences "a whole life in that old world." Bleiler , Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2345. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), pp. 148-49. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 175. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15022. Minute rubs to corner tips, free endpapers tanned, a bright, nearly copy. (#156373)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. The Dream. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 318 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An important book. Bleiler 2345; Wells Society 91; Hammond A18 Orange cloth. Fine in VGsplit at spine and chipped dust jacket
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G. [Herbert George]. The Dream. Macmillan, New York, 1924.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Small octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; top edge gilt; 318pp. Tight, clean and Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 at base of front flap), somewhat aged with shallow chips along top edge, just Very Good. "The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a future eutopia" (Sargent), set two thousand years in the future but with most of the action taking place, through the device of an extended dream, in Victorian and Edwardian England. SARGENT p.90. CURREY (1979) p.518 (the London edition). BLEILER (1979) p.205.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G.. The Dream.. New York: Macmillan, 1924., 1924.
Price: US$224.39 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. Fine in d/w with nicks at spine ends and corners but still quite nice.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. THE DREAM: A NOVEL. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] [1-2] 3-318, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g. First U.S. edition. A late, but major Wells fantasy. Twenty centuries in the future a tourist cuts his hand in the ruins of the "Ages of Confusion." In a fever induced dream he experiences " a whole life in that old world." Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2345. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), pp. 148-49. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 175. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15022. A fine copy in very good decorated dust jacket with light wear at lower spine end and corner tips and shallow chip from upper spine end. Scarce in jacket. (#80424)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G.. The Dream. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and tears. Publisher's promotional card laid in, listing this title. A nicer than usual copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. The Dream. Macmillan, New York, 1924.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Pre-publication edition of this novel with a tipped-in sheet, stating, "This book is sent to you with the compliments of its Publisher. The Dream will be published on April 22. I hope that you will enjoy reding it." and signed by Arthur Sylvestor "For The Macmillan Company". This copy is good in original paper-covered boards with wear at the tips, the edges of the spine and the bottom 1/3 of the spine is missing. "The Dream' and "H.G. Wells" are undisturbed on the spine. Clearly an uncommon item.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. THE DREAM. The MacMillan Company, New York, 1924.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published April 1924. "This book is sent to you with the com- pliments of its Publisher. The Dream will be published on April 22. I hope that you will enjoy reading it." For The Macmillan Company." super rare advance first edition with extra special cover and additional page
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.