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First American edition and first illustrated edition. Bound in publisher's original light green cloth stamped in gilt, light green and black. Near Fine with slight toning to spine and edges, trivial rubbing at extremities, minor offsetting to endsheets and tanning to pages. An unusually beautiful copy of Wells' extraterrestrial sci-fi thriller.

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published by Pearson’s Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel details the experiences of an unnamed protagonist in London and his brother in Surrey during an invasion of Earth by Martians. It is a pioneering work of the science fiction genre, popularizing the alien invasion trope.