The Time Machine - First Edition - 1895 - H.G. Wells

Description: The Time Machineby H.G. Wells First UK edition Publisher and Year: London: William Heinemann, MDCCCXCV (1895)-Edition: First UK edition of the novel to popularize the concept of the time machine. Second issue cloth binding with no inserted publisher's catalogue (the first issue binding had a 16-page catalog). Bibliographic reference: Currey (p 525, F.1).-Condition and Description: Publisher's original tan buckram cloth, stamped and lettered in brown, small octavo (18.0 cm height), all edges rough trimmed (as issued), no catalog bound in rear, 151 pp. Boards very good. Slight spine lean. A little color bleed of the stamped lettering and publisher's device on the rear board. Tight hinges. Edges and foredge tips lightly rubbed. Sound internal binding, but with a crack at the first page of the text and also at the joint of page 32/33 (refer to the last three pictures for closeups). Foxing of the preliminary leaves (front endpapers to the half title) and terminal leaves (rear flyleaf and endpapers), but the rest of the pages are virtually unaffected. Clean pages with an occasional very minor imperfection. Previous owner's name in ink on front flyleaf of American religious author and Dean of the General Theological Seminary, Wilford L(ash) Robbins, dated 1906. Else free and clear of writing and underlining. A very good copy of a quintessential science fiction classic.- “It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.” ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine-Inventory ID: 567 - 460 - 494

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