The Collector's Book of Science Fiction by H G Wells, from Rare, Original, Illustrated Magazines

First edition. viii, 514pp, with black and white illustrations in text. In red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. . Cloth just a little rubbed on edges, slightly pushed at spine ends. Some mild smudging on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In a shelf worn dust jacket, a little rubbed at spine ends. H G Well's most famous science fiction exactly as it appeared in illustrated popular magazines at the turn of the 20th century, presented here in their entirety with all the original illustrations by leading artists of the day. Here are novels such War of the Worlds, The First Men on the Moon, nearly two dozen short stories and five unusual Stories of the Stone Age - science fiction not of the future but of the past.