Another purchase from that Heritage Auction lot:
Wells, H. G. In the Days of the Comet. Macmillan and Company Limited, 1906. First edition hardback, (Currey B) state, with “PRINTED BY/WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED/LONDON AND BECCLES” and publisher’s catalog dated “20.8.06” at rear, which was the first issued edition (only one copy of Currey (A) known to exist, that being the British Library deposit copy, which Locke (see below) believes to be a bound proof rather than a true first printing), a Very Good copy with slight abrasion above title on front cover, slight bumping at head, heel and points, slight wear along bottom boards and along top front spine join and near outer board edges on point, slight foxing to inside covers, and bookseller pencil notices to FFE and inside front cover, with a letter from Bertram Rota, London bookseller, to a Lawrence Davern Esq. of Washington, D.C., discussing the first edition points of the title. Locke, Science Fiction First Editions, pages 56-57 and pages 94-96 (and this is the reference Currey cites). Currey, pages 519-520. H. G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography 27. Scheck and Cox, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide, page xxiv. Parrinder, H.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage, pages 133-145. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 226. Bleiler, Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), page 205.
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