or, The Child of the Cavern. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d.[by 1883]. Original brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First American hardbound edition of this supernatural tale sited deep in a Scottish mine. Per Kingston's introduction, Verne has called into existence a mine.....
[1902 in dust jacket] of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 4 pp undated ads. Original grey boards with printed spine label, with fabric dust jacket. First American Edition of this book of prophecies for the.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. 6 pp undated ads plus 8 pp ads dated "20.8.06." Original blind-stamped olive-green cloth. First Edition of this tale typical of Wells's transition from his early science fiction to his later socialism: a comet passes very close to Earth, emanating a gas that changes people's.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1895. 32 pp ads dated September 1895. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of fifteen tales, along a science fiction vein -- Wells's first book of short stories and his second volume of science fiction (after THE TIME MACHINE). The.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1903. 6 pp undated ads plus 16 pp ads dated "20.9.03." Original blind-stamped olive green cloth. First Edition of this collection of thirteen tales of fantasy and the supernatural -- probably the least-known of Wells's fantastical titles. Included are "The Magic Shop," "The Valley of Spiders,".....
And particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this extraordinary tale of a Cockney cycle mechanic who is carried off by a drifting balloon.....
