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New York: Holt, 1895. First edition, first issue, with the author’s name printed H.S. Wells on title page. vii, 216, [2, blank], [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Tan cloth, titled in purple, t.e.g. Spine a bit faded. Bookseller ticket of Arey & Jones, San Diego. Very good plus. First edition, first issue, with the author’s name printed H.S. Wells on title page. vii, 216, [2, blank], [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. In The Time Machine, H.G. Wells' time traveler visits the distant future and brings back a report that human society has diverged into the Eloi, who appear to live an idle, pastoral existence, and the Morlocks, who dwell underground; he then voyages further into the future where all signs of intelligent life have perished and a round thing hops fitfully beside a blood red ocean. The early novels of Wells, including The War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau, display a remarkable capacity for extrapolation, but it is his first, The Time Machine, which establishes Wells…

The US Edition came out first (1895) The UK Edition followed in 1898.