Books

First edition, Currey (B) with the publisher's monogram at rear panel stamped in blind. (No established priority between Currey A and B). Publisher's catalogue at back in Currey (2) [also with no established priority], with 32 pages of advertisements, beginning with 'The Manxman' at page 1 and ending with 'The Naulahka' at page 32. Brown cloth with titling and decoration in black and red. Cloth very good with light general wear and age-soil, points of fraying at spine ends. Slight spine tilt forward. Rear inner hinge just starting; binding intact, and sound through textblock. No jacket. Tissue guard at frontis foxed and heavily tanned; prior owner's blind stamp at RFEP. Interior else clean, pages lightly toned to margins, text unmarked.

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection.