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TALES OF SPACE AND TIME
by Wells, H.G
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- first
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1900. [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.
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15231
- Title
- TALES OF SPACE AND TIME
- Author
- Wells, H.G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Sci Fi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (19th Century); Science Fiction & Fantasy;
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Sumner & Stillman
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Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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