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First UK edition, first impression, issue with rear advertisement for The Time Machine on terminal leaf preceding publisher's list. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, with publisher's monogram in black to lower board. A shipwrecked man uncovers horrifying scientific experiments turning animals into human-like beings on a remote island.a cautionary tale. Repairs to splits on front folds, book plate on front paste down, no inscriptions, contents clean, slight tanning to pages, ink writing on rear board, overall about VG.

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.