THE STOLEN BACILLUS AND OTHER INCIDENTS.
London: Methuen & Co., 1895. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-275 [276: printer's imprint] [note: first leaf is a blank], original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Variant with no publisher's catalogue inserted at rear. Wells' first published collection of fantasy and SF stories, all written and printed in magazines between 1893 and 1895. Some of the tales "possess, on a smaller scale, something of the imaginative distinction which had marked THE TIME MACHINE." - Bergonzi, The Early H. G. Wells, p. 63. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1674. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2326. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 115. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 62. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-246. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15074. Currey, p. 523. Wells 6. Wells Society 6. Hammond C1. W. H. Smith & Sons subscription library label affixed to front paste-down. Short splits in cloth at head and tail of spine panel professionally repaired, hairline crack along inner front hinge mended, a very good, bright copy. An important collection and one of Wells' scarcest books. (24968). Item #24968
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