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H. G. Wells. The Time Machine. An Invention. London: William Heinemann, 1895. First English edition of Wells' fi...
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The Time Machine, Inscribed by H. G. Wells to His Friend, Fellow Author and Journalist, H. B. Marriott Watson
H. G. Wells. The Time Machine. An
Invention. London: William Heinemann, 1895. First English
edition of Wells' first novel, first issue in cloth binding.
Inscribed by Wells on the front free endpaper: "H. B. Marriott
Watson/With the author's Kindest regards [underlined". Octavo.
[viii], [152] pages. With the earliest version of the publisher's
sixteen-page catalogue inserted at rear. Publisher's full tan
cloth, covers and spine stamped in purple. Binding browned and
somewhat soiled, lettering on spine nearly completely obscured,
hinges starting, previous owner's bookplate on verso of front free
endpaper, and small catalogue entry for this book affixed to bottom
of the half-title. With the recipient's bookplate on the front
pastedown. A good copy with an excellent association. H. B. Marriot
Watson (1863-1921) was a successful British novelist and
journalist. He worked with Wells at the Pall Mall Gazette, and the
two were good friends. It was Watson who introduced Wells to poet
and editor W. E. Henley, to whom The Time Machine is
dedicated. Hammond B1. Currey p. 525. From the John
McLaughlin/Book Sail Collection.
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