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219 pp + 32 ads. First British edition, first issue binding with publisher's monogram in blind on rear cover. Bound in publisher's ochre cloth decorated in red and black. Very Good. Lean to spine, corners bumped, soiling to cloth and spotting to rear cover. Splash marks to top edge of front endpaper, light foxing to tissue guard, and rear inner hinge is tender.

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.