Price: £3,500
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1897
Stock Number: 66919
(Your basket is currently empty)A Grotesque Romance [Heinemann's Colonial Library of Popular Fiction].
Description: FIRST EDITION, Colonial issue, toning to paperstock as usual, ownership inscription to half-title, pp. viii, 2-245, [10, ads], crown 8vo, original mid red boards, backstrip and upper board lettered in black with publisher's device in same to lower, a few waterspots and gently darkened in patches, the backstrip faded with slight lean to spine, light rubbing to extremities, top edge black now faded, publisher's lists to both endpapers, discreet ownership initials to flyleaf which has a tiny nick to fore-margin, goodPublication Details: William Heinemann, 1897
Notes: A significant, and scarce, issue of the first edition – perhaps the earliest issue of this major late nineteenth-century novel (one might note that for the same author's contemporaneous Certain Personal Matters, the issue in Heinemann's Colonial Library antedates – at least in terms of what is printed on the title-page – its UK counterpart, published by Lawrence & Bullen). Certainly, in terms of the paperstock used, along with other issue points such as the misnumbering of the first text-page as p.2, this issue of The Invisible Man is identical with the Pearson first edition and we can a...more
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