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The Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells . First edition, first issue of The Island of Dr Moreau. Original pictorial boards with monogram to the rear board. Rubbed and marked with lightly darkened spine colour. Rear hinge cracked to the base. Lightly toned with minimal foxing. Frontpiece with a few spots of foxing.�The Time Machine advertisement at the end of the novel. Advertisements commencing with The Manxman and ending with Out of Due Season at the rear of the volume. 8vo 219 pp.

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.