[WELLS, H. G.]. The First Men in the Moon. London: George Newnes, 1901.
FIRST UK EDITION, SECOND STATE BINDING. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (20 x 13 x 3.5 cm); pp. vii, [1], 342 + final blank leaf, frontispiece and eleven other full-page b&w plates by Claude Shepperson. English text. Bound in publisher's original mid-blue cloth, spine lettered and blocked in black with design of crescent moon and cloud, upper cover lettered and blocked in black with formal design incorporating twelve Chinese lantern-style flowers with interlacing stems against a radiating sun. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight secure and square, neat contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper, bookseller's circular embossed stamp on rear endpaper, spine ends a little rubbed, very slight foxing to extreme fore-edge, otherwise excellent. Notes: A handsome copy of the first edition, second state binding with plain white endpapers. A wonderful science fiction novel about a journey to the Moon by two Englishmen who discover that a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures inhabit the lunar interior. [Hammond B7].
