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FIRST EDITION, frontispiece with spotting to border (tissue-guard present, foxed), a few spots to prelims, pp. x, 222, [34, ads], crown 8vo, original tan cloth, backstrip lettered in black, pictorial design and lettering to upper board stamped in red and black, backstrip browned with wear at ends and a trace of wax to surface at foot, some spots and soiling to cloth, wear at corners, top edge dusty, other edges roughtrimmed and toned, a few spots to endpapers, free endpapers faintly browned, address blind-stamp to top corner of flyleaf and small ex-libris label at foot of facing pastedown, fair condition. (Wells 7; Wells Society 8).

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.