"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
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 showing general use, browning/soiling to pp.208/9, no inscriptions, label removed from pastedown and front panel, spine rather darkened. "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 #74497
G H Wells 16.
Price: £235.00
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