Select Conversations with an Uncle (now extinct)

Wells (H.G.).   Pictorial title-page John Lane,  1895 First Edition    Top edge gilt, others uncut. Sixteen pages publishers’ advertisements at end Binding somewhat rubbed and a little soiled, some foxing internally, but a very good copy; small label removed from front pastedown. Scarce H.G. Wells Society Bibliography 3 The author’s first non-scientific work and one of about 650 copies published as number III of The Mayfair Set, comprising pieces from The Pall Mall Gazette. Most unusually, this copy does not have pages 5-6 of the advertisements excised by the publisher, proving the point that Edmund Gosse’s name was indeed printed as “Goose (Edmund)”. 

Price: £350