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THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION
THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION

THE INVISIBLE MAN BY H. G. WELLS 1897 FIRST EDITION

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[WELLS, H. G.]. The Invisible Man. London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897.

First edition, first impression [with page one numbered as '2', title-page printed in orange and black, and pages 247 and 248 being publisher's ads]; cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19cm x 12.5cm x 2.7cm); pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-245 [246: printer's imprint] [247-248: ads]; English text; bound in publisher's original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold; initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present; title-page printed in orange and black; advertisements to rear. Printed by The Gresham Press. Condition: GOOD. Binding secure with some wear to inner hinges, the spine ends lightly rubbed, mild darkening to spine cloth. The interior lightly toned but otherwise well-preserved, with Douglas Anstruther's bookplate to front pastedowm.

Notes: Rare first edition of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man, published in London by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd in 1897. The first issue with all issue points. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, The Invisible Man was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. The Invisible Man remains not only an inescapable influence on modern science fiction but also a "classic study of scientific hubris brought to destruction" (Clute & Nicholls, 1313).
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