H. G. Wells. The Time Machine. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1895.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: First American edition, second issue with H. G. Wells spelled correctly on the title page. This book measures approximately 6.75" x 4.5", with 216 numbered pages. The book is in very good minus condition. Minor surface wear and scratching to the red cloth boards. Moderate wear to the extremities of the boards, most noticeable at the spine ends. Hinges cracked. Previous owner's name and bookplate on the front pastedown. "The Time Machine" by H.G Wells is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella published in 1895. The text focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Traveler's journey into the far future. The book has been adapted into two feature films, two television productions, and a comic book series. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # ( M4-28).

Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.

Wells, H. G.. The Time Machine. Henry Holt, New York, 1895.

Price: US$6000.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition, first printing. First issue with author misidentified as "H. S. Wells" on title page and 6 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Good. Hinges and crack at front paste down professionally repaired. Cloth soiled, with lettering worn off, extremities lightly frayed. Front free end paper shows light crease to top corner and previous owner name. Pages clean, with very light foxing or thumbing. Tissue guard intact. Rare in first issue, with most copies being recalled and rebound with new title pages. Precedes the British first edition by several weeks. An extreme rarity.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

H.G. WELLS. THE TIME MACHINE. Henry Holt and Company, 1895.

Price: US$6295.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Henry Holt and Company, 1895 First US Edition, Blend of First and Second Issues A superb handsome unrestored copy of this title with the requisite 1895 date on the title page. Mixed first and second issue with H.G. Wells misspelled on the “Authors Note” as “H.S.W.” page but corrected on the title page. The American edition preceded the English Edition. Wells’ groundbreaking “scientific romance”- a work generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time Original decorated tan cloth, stamped in purple. Untrimmed pages with gilt top stain. The book is in beautiful condition with a tight and square binding. Original tissue guard present. The original cloth is in clean condition with only very slight rubbing, and with darkening/sunning to the spine cloth. The internal pages are clean, crisp, bright and flat, with no foxing, no handling marks, no stains, and no bent pages. The end papers are clean with one delicate scripted owner name, otherwise no bookplates, no inscriptions, and no bookstore stamps. Far nicer than usually found. Please see the many detailed images. In 1894 Wells “began writing what he called ‘single sitting stories’ using his special knowledge of science, culminating in the publication of his novella The Time Machine in 1895. It was an immediate success” (Gunn, From Gilgamesh to Wells, 337). Its earliest readers grasped its significance: as one contemporary review states, “So far as our knowledge goes [Wells] has produced that rarity which Solomon declared to be not merely rare but non-existent–a ‘new thing under the sun'” (Bergonzi, 41). Important not only for establishing Wells as a popular author but also for making a “crucial breakthrough in narrative technology, providing science fiction with one of its most significant facilitating devices” (Clute & Nicholls, 1227), “it is the most important foundation stone of British scientific romance and the science fiction genre in general” (Anatomy of Wonder II-1232). Indeed, “once it was published it was modified and changed the English and American fiction forever. Wells had produced a significant and seminal work. a masterful marriage of the fictive art and theoretical science” (Smith, 46, 50). 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 Time Machine An Invention.. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1895., 1895.

Price: US$6750.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION FIRST ISSUE. 1 vol., frontis, original tissue guard present, with the author's name incorrectly spelled on the title-page as "H. S. WELLS", original publisher's tan cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, binding a bit grubby, inner hinges renewed, housed in a maroon clamshell slipcase, gilt lettered brown morocco spine label. The US edition was published before the UK edition and the text (presumably an earlier version of the story) differs significantly from the UK edition.

Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.

Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. THE TIME MACHINE: AN INVENTION .. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1895.

Price: US$8500.00 + shipping

Description: Small octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-216 [217-218: blank] [219-224: ads], inserted frontispiece (with tissue guard) with illustration by W. B. Russell, original decorated tan buckram, front and spine panels stamped in purple, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, first printing with author's name incorrectly printed as "H. S. WELLS" on recto of title leaf. The earliest draft of THE TIME MACHINE was serialized in THE SCIENCE SCHOOLS JOURNAL in 1888 as "The Chronic Argonauts." After two subsequent drafts (which are lost), Wells rewrote the story as a series of loosely connected articles for THE NATIONAL OBSERVER. Seven of these appeared between March and June 1894, but the series was discontinued when W. E. Henley gave up the editorship of the magazine. Henley took over the editorship of THE NEW REVIEW and arranged for a much revised version of the novel to be serialized there: it appeared in five installments from January to May 1895. At the end of May THE TIME MACHINE was published as a book by Henry Holt in New York and William Heinemann in London. The text of the Heinemann edition is largely, though not entirely, the same as that serialized in THE NEW REVIEW, while the text of Holt edition (which preceded the Heinemann edition) contains a number of significant variations from both THE NEW REVIEW and Heinemann versions. See Bergonzi, "The Publication of The Time Machine, 1894-1895," Clareson, ed., SF: The Other Side of Realism (1971), pp. 204-15. The author's first SF novel. "Many rank it as Wells's best book, certainly its qualities are striking and direct . All time-travel stories since owe a debt to Wells, none has become so acclaimed." - Bleiler (ed), Science Fiction Writers, p. 26. "THE TIME MACHINE might be considered the first work of modern science-fiction, and it is still the classic statement of an important subgenre . A remarkable work, and necessary reading." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2325. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-161; (1981) 1-171; (1987) 1-103; (1995) 1-103; and (2004) II-1232. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 800. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 21. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 207. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 227. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1175. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 107. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2287-92. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 62-3. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15085. Currey, p. 524 (printing A). Hammond B1 (note). Early owner's signature on front free end paper. Some foxing to cloth, mild rubbing to cloth, mainly to spine ends and along outer joints, endpapers tanned, a good copy. Now housed in a custom clamshell box. (#152320)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.