The War of the Worlds.
"NO ONE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IN THE LAST YEARS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THAT THIS WORLD WAS BEING WATCHED KEENLY AND CLOSELY BY INTELLIGENCES GREATER THAN MAN'S": H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds.
WELLS, H.G.
Item Number: 141048
London: Harper & Brothers Limited, 1900.
Early printing of “the best of all his scientific romances” (Clarke) first published by William Heinemann in London in 1898. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. In good condition.
"The War of the Worlds is a tour de force whose innumerable fictional offspring include numerous adaptations and homages, by far the most effective of which was Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater radio broadcast of 1938" (Anatomy of Wonder II-1234). "The best of all his scientific romances still the most remarkable fantasy of imaginary warfare that has so far appeared in the history of the genre" (Clarke, Voices Prophesying War).
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