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Price: US$25.87 + shipping
Description: , stories, articles, black and white illustrations, The First Man in the Moon by H G Wells First Edition , leather rubbed and worn, pages clean, fair condition , half russian morocco with cloth sides Octavo, 24 cm x 18 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$31.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 32pp. A single original issue disbound from a compilation. As was common this had been bound without the exterior cover or adverts but contains all the main copy. All on glossy paper. Well illustrated. In the title line is firstly details of the front page portrait followed by the main article in their Country Homes series and then any other articles of interest. If you would like more information about any item please ask. Interior in nice clean condition. All pages are good, clean and complete.
Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 32 + 10pp. A single original issue disbound from a compilation. As was common this had been bound without the exterior cover or adverts prior to portrait page but includes the adverts at rear and contains all the copy. All on glossy paper. Well illustrated. In the title line is firstly details of the front page portrait followed by the main article in their Country Homes series and then any other articles of interest. If you would like more information about any item please ask. Interior in nice clean condition. All pages are good, clean and complete. Spine edge maybe rough.
Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.36 + shipping
Description: Mit vielen Abbildungen, 724 Seiten. Enthält u. a. : A British Commando", ein Interview mit Arthur Conan Doyle von Captain Philip Trevor. First Men in the Moon" (illustriert), Chapter VI. - XXI. (Ende) von H. G. Wells. Strange Studies from Life" (1. The Holocaust from Manor Place, 2. The love affair of George Vincent Parker, 3. The Debatable Case) von Arthur Conan Doyle. Einband stärker berieben und bestossen, etwas schiefgelesen, Rückenschild beschädigt, innen etwas fingerfleckig. Mit offener Rechnung versenden wir gerne an Bibliotheken und Institutionen, Schulen, Universitäten etc. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1500 16,7 x 24,5 cm, Original-Leinen mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel.
Seller: Antiquariat Ralf Rindle, Cuxhaven, Germany
Doyle, Arthur Conan. A British Commando [in the Strand Magazine]. The Strand Magazine, 1901.
Price: US$226.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DOYLE, Arthur Conan [Captain Philip TREVOR]. A British Commando [in] The Strand Magazine, June 1901. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1901 8vo., pale blue publisher's wraps, overprinted with classic design in navy; advertisements to verso of front cover, and to both sides of lower; pp. xlviii [ads], [iii], 604-724, xlix-lvi, [ads]; staples rusted through to lower portion, with a couple of nicks, brown spots, and the spine just beginning to split; still a very good example, holding firm in the wraps. No. 126, Vol 21 of The Strand Magazine, containing an article by Captain Trevor about Conan Doyle and a volunteer vigilante group, which comes complete with numerous photos of the members holding their weapons aloft. Conan Doyle explains how he created and organised the 'Undershaw Rifle Club' near his home in Surrey. Also included is Chapter 21 of H. G. Wells 'First Men in the Moon'. As is often the way with periodicals of this era, the numerous advertisements to front and rear also provide much entertainment, among which are Crystoleum painting, 'how to obtain a slender waist', and portable turkish bath cabinets.
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION ( first appearance).Two volumes of THE STRAND MAGAZINE ( Vol.XX and Vol.XXI ) published and bound by George Newnes, 1900 - 1901, London. Illustrated with wood engravings. FIRST APPEARANCE of this classic science fiction novel illustrated by Claude Shepperson, many plates of which are ONLY AVAILABLE IN THIS PERIODICAL ISSUE. Also contains Arthur Conan Doyle articles, "A Glimpse of the Army" & "Strange Studies From Life" , as well as an interview with Doyle, "A British Commando". Original publisher's light blue pictoral cloth, stamped in black & gilt. Volume XX is VERY GOOD plus with some foxing to endpapers and page edges;soiling and rubbing to covers. The binding and hinges are tight! Volume XXI is VERY GOOD with hinges starting to crack but binding is still tight. Very little foxing and front covers less rubbed than on Volume XX. Inluded in these volumes: A previously unpublished letter by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, etc., to his cousin Tennyson & "My Live On Devil's Island" by Alfred Dreyfus illustrated with sketches by the author. ** Extra post may be required as these are two lage and heavy volumes**
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Wells, H.G.. The First Men in the Moon. London George Newnes Ltd. 1901, 1901.
Price: US$485.11 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Published by George Newnes Ltd., in London, 1901. This is a very good copy. Without the dust wrapper. The blue cloth-bound boards are generally free from notable chips and marks aside from slight scuffing at the corners. There are slight marks to the front panel. The internals are bright and clean throughout but with some very slight foxing. The twelve plates are present and bright. The text blocks are also generally bright and clean. This copy is free from previous owners ink and is, overall, in very good condition. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantastic stories".
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Wells, H.G.. The First Men in the Moon. George Newnes, London, 1901.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Preceded by the first U.S. edition. Finely bound in later full crushed morocco with gilt to spine. Internally unmarked but with a bit of toning. Complete with all 12 plates. A pleasant copy. When businessman Mr. Bedford and scientist Mr. Cavor undertake a journey to the moon, they discover an extraterrestrial world governed by Selenites -- insect-like creatures who are far more technologically advanced than Earth's humans and unaware of violence or war. Ultimately, the two men are captured by the moon's native community, and only Mr. Bedford escapes. It has been called the first alien dystopian novel in English; and it has spawned numerous television, film, and radio adaptations as well as later science fiction short stories and novels (Stableford). Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
H. G. Wells. The First Men in the Moon (1901). George Newnes, Ltd, London, England, 1901.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 342pp/illus. 1st Edition - Second state binding of mid-blue cloth decorated and titled in black to upper and spine, with white endpapers. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece and eleven further plates. A near fine copy that shows well. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call Selenites. Light wear at top and bottom of spine. Overall, tight clean copy of a rare book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$646.81 + shipping
Description: First edition. Second Issue with white end-papers. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.75 inches. frontis.+ vii + [1] + 342 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with device on front board and crescent moon in night sky on spine. Extremities slightly worn. Interior a little browned but otherwise a good tight, clean copy. W.H Smith Library blind stamp on first free endpaper. Illustrated with [12] plates, including frontispiece. The earliest issue is known to have black end-papers otherwise they are identical. WELLS LITERATURE WELLS
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
WELLS, H[erbert] G[eorge].. The First Men In The Moon.. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901., 1901.
Price: US$666.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. vii, 342. 12 plates (incl. frontis.). A very good copy in dark blue cloth. J.E.Barton bookplate. First Edition, secondary binding.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
H G Wells. The First Men in the Moon. George Newnes, London UK, 1901.
Price: US$698.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the illustrated, The First Men in the Moon. First impression, second state with non black end papers. With twelve black and white illustrations within the text. Original blue cloth boards with gilt illustrations and lettering on the boards and spine. Darkened and worn spine. Bumped corners and some marks on the boards. Frayed and torn spine ends. Booksellers blind stamp on the front free page. Browned cream end pages. Foxing within the text and marks on the pages ends. 8vo 342 pp.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
WELLS, (H.G.). The First Men in the Moon. London, George Newnes, 1901.
Price: US$953.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations on spine and upper board, black end papers, frontispiece, [viii] -342 p.; nice copy, edges and corners rubbed, spine ends bumped and frayed, gilt slightly fading. First UK edition in its first state of this early science-fiction classic by H.G. Wells (1866-1946). Illustrated with twelve b/w drawings by Claude Shepperson. Inspired by Jules Verne's Journey to the Moon, it was originally published as a serial in The Strand Magazine in 1900 and first released in book form in New York, one month before the London edition. It was the first novel of Wells to be adapted to film, in 1919 by Gaumont. These early scientific romances remain unsurpassed for their imagination and visionary power. Where Wells's contemporaries saw him as adding the scientific imagination to nineteenth-century romance, the twentieth century regarded him as the greatest of the forerunners of modern science fiction. His tales of future evolution, alien intelligence, interplanetary warfare and technological dystopia anticipated most of science fiction's thematic repertoire. (Literary Encyclopedia)
Seller: Mille Septante Books, Anderlecht, BRUSS, Belgium
Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON .. George Newnes, Limited, London, 1901.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-342 [343-344: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Claude Shepperson, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, black coated endpapers. The U.S. Bowen-Merrill edition preceded the British edition by approximately one month. The two editions have minor textual differences. ".a gripping adventure story as well as a historic milestone in modern science fiction." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 782-86. "The last and most complex [of Wells's early scientific romances] is THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. The two first men, Bedford and Cavor are well-contrasted, the civilization of the Selenites is excellent both as horror and satire; and the novel abounds with wonderful passages of unforced description at which Wells is unrivaled. This lovely book also contains much of Wells's delightful humor; it has kept the joints of his discourse oiled to this day. After THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, Wells's science fiction novels are never quite the same." - Bleiler (ed), Science Fiction Writers, p. 28. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-166; (1981) 1-175; (1987) 1-98; (1995) 1-98; and (2004) II-1225. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2335. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 795. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 206. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 226. Locke, Voyages in Space 208. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1177. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 123-24. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15026. Currey, p. 518 (binding A). Hammond B7. Wells 18. Wells Society 18. Small abrasion from erasure to upper half title page, corners a bit soft with lower tips a bit rubbed, mild rubbing to outer hinges, spine a bit darkened with ends pushed and and rubbed, small 6 mm tear to cloth at head of spine, solid hinges and a bright front cover, a very good or better copy. (28602)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1617.02 + shipping
Description: 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 Conan Doyle. Completed in 1849, In Memoriam is a requiem for the poet's beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died suddenly, at the age of 22, of a cerebral haemorrhage in Vienna in 1833. "The friendship, deepening into love, of Hallam and Tennyson was to be one of the most important experiences of Hallam's short life and of Tennyson's long one" (ODNB). Octavo. Original japon-backed buff paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, cream pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, yellow silk bookmark. Frontispiece with laid in tissue-guard, decorative frame to title page, 14 plates, illustrations to text, all by Alfred Garth Jones. Spine toned and rolled, light offsetting from illustrations; an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON .. George Newnes, London, 1901.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-342 [343-344: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Claude Shepperson, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, black coated endpapers. First British edition, first binding. The U.S. Bowen-Merrill edition preceded the British edition by approximately one month. The two editions have minor textual differences. ".a gripping adventure story as well as a historic milestone in modern science fiction." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 782-86. "The last and most complex [of Wells's early scientific romances] is THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. The two first men, Bedford and Cavor are well-contrasted, the civilization of the Selenites is excellent both as horror and satire; and the novel abounds with wonderful passages of unforced description at which Wells is unrivaled. This lovely book also contains much of Wells's delightful humor; it has kept the joints of his discourse oiled to this day. After THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, Wells's science fiction novels are never quite the same." - Bleiler (ed), Science Fiction Writers, p. 28. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-166; (1981) 1-175; (1987) 1-98; (1995) 1-98; and (2004) II-1225. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2335. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 795. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 206. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 226. Locke, Voyages in Space 208. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1177. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 123-24. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15026. Currey, p. 518 (binding A). Hammond B7. Wells 18. Wells Society 18. Hint of rubbing to cloth at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, top edge of text block just a bit dusty, some foxing to uncoated sides of free endpaper with a bit of offset on verso of half title and recto of final blank, else a near fine copy with a clean, bright cover and tight, uncracked inner hinges. A nice copy of this book. (#80302)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
H.G. WELLS. THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. George Newnes, 1901.
Price: US$1995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing, First State First British edition, First state. A beautiful unrestored first state book, with the requisite black end papers. All pages present, and firmly bound. The book is in great condition with beautiful blue cloth boards and stunning gilt designs to the front with gilt titles to the spine. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. 12 inserted plates with illustrations by Claude Shepperson. Final leaf is blank. The book has the original black coated end papers with no prior owner names and no inscriptions. The book has no edgewear but a few tiny spots of rubbing; and the binding is tight and square making the book quite readable and not fragile as is otherwise typical of this title. The internal pages are very clean and bright with no foxing, no stains, no writing, no handling marks and no bent pages. Please see the many detailed images. The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call “Selenites”. A very handsome unrestored copy of this title in collectible condition without the excessive wear, and broken bindings as is typically found with this title. Important, scarce edition. Presents well on the shelf. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other landmark SciFi listings.
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G. The First Men in the Moon.. George Newnes, Limited, London, 1901.
Price: US$72000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue binding of Wellsâ classic work. Octavo, original cloth, 12 plates by Claude Shepperson. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Exceptionally rare in the original dust jacket, especially in this condition. The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites".
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
WELLS, H.G.. The First Men In The Moon. London: George Newnes, 1901, 1901.
Price: US$75000.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition; first binding. An extraordinary copy in the rare dust jacket. Aside from minor dust soiling of the edges and slight bumping at the foot of the spine, the book is as fine and bright as one might expect from the more than one hundred years of protection afforded by the jacket, which is virtually free of wear and has slight dust soiling to the spine of the dust jacket, All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.