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Wells (H.G.). The Island of Dr Moreau. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$1248.56 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first impression, issue with rear advertisement for The Time Machine on terminal leaf preceding publisher's list. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, with publisher's monogram in black to lower board. A shipwrecked man uncovers horrifying scientific experiments turning animals into human-like beings on a remote island.a cautionary tale. Repairs to splits on front folds, book plate on front paste down, no inscriptions, contents clean, slight tanning to pages, ink writing on rear board, overall about VG.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
H. G. Wells. The Island of Dr Moreau. William Heinemann, London UK, 1896.
Price: US$2548.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells . First edition, first issue of The Island of Dr Moreau. Original pictorial boards with monogram to the rear board. Rubbed and marked with lightly darkened spine colour. Rear hinge cracked to the base. Lightly toned with minimal foxing. Frontpiece with a few spots of foxing. The Time Machine advertisement at the end of the novel. Advertisements commencing with The Manxman and ending with Out of Due Season at the rear of the volume. 8vo 219 pp.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Wells, H. G.. The Island of Dr. Moreau. William Heinemann, 1896.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, Currey (B) with the publisher's monogram at rear panel stamped in blind. (No established priority between Currey A and B). Publisher's catalogue at back in Currey (2) [also with no established priority], with 32 pages of advertisements, beginning with 'The Manxman' at page 1 and ending with 'The Naulahka' at page 32. Brown cloth with titling and decoration in black and red. Cloth very good with light general wear and age-soil, points of fraying at spine ends. Slight spine tilt forward. Rear inner hinge just starting; binding intact, and sound through textblock. No jacket. Tissue guard at frontis foxed and heavily tanned; prior owner's blind stamp at RFEP. Interior else clean, pages lightly toned to margins, text unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. The Island of Dr. Moreau. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 219 pp + 32 ads. First British edition, first issue binding with publisher's monogram in blind on rear cover. Bound in publisher's ochre cloth decorated in red and black. Very Good. Lean to spine, corners bumped, soiling to cloth and spotting to rear cover. Splash marks to top edge of front endpaper, light foxing to tissue guard, and rear inner hinge is tender.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G. The Island of Doctor Moreau.. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of âthe ultimate science fiction novel and the ultimate horror storyâ (Gene Wolfe). Octavo, original publisher's pictorial tan cloth stamped in red and black, tissue-guarded frontispiece. First issue with 33pp. publisherâs advertisements at rear and in Curreyâs (B) binding lacking monogram on rear board. Hammond B3; Currey p. 520;ÂWells 8. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A very sharp example. âOften regarded as the father of modern science fictionâ (Clute & Grant, 1004), Wells wrote The Island of Dr. Moreau when only 30. âA highly significant literary experiment⦠[that] served to reveal the potential of science fiction to couch serious questionsâ (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder II-1228). Of this and Wellsâ other early âscientific romances,â Jorge Luis Borges once declared, âthey will be incorporated, like the fables of Theseus or Ahasuerus, into the general memory of the species and even transcend the fame of their creator.â Basis for several adaptations to film, most notably in 1977 starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera and Richard Basehart, directed by Don Taylor. Also the 1996 film directed by John Frankenheimer starring Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis and Fairuza Balk.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Wells, H. G.. The Island of Doctor Moreau. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$5750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Tan cloth blocked in red and black. Publisher's ads present in rear. Frontispiece illustration and tissue guard, which has lightly offset to the the title page. Cloth somewhat rubbed and soiled else thsi is a very good copy. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Wells, H.G.. The Island of Doctor Moreau. William Heinemann, London, 1896.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy SIGNED by H.G. Wells on a laid in signature. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's orange/brown cloth. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.