"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain
London: Harper, 1900 [actually published 1899]. [Science fiction collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 358; + 2 of adverts. Publisher's light brown cloth, lettered in brown to spine and in gilt to cover, with additional rules and devices in brown; top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. A used book with soiling/staining to cloth, damp mark to lower margin of final gathering, faint ink stamp to final leaf. Fair copy. "The Star, which in its immensity of conception and imaginative vividness of execution must be reckoned one of the author's most powerful short stories..." Item #68050
G H Wells 16.
Price: £225.00
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