The Invisible Man – H G Wells (1967) (1st thus)

S$120.00

The Invisible Man – H G Wells (1967) (1st thus)

S$120.00

Limited edition of H G Wells’ sci-fi classic The Invisible Man.

Title: The Invisible Man

Author: H. G. Wells, Charles Mozley (illus)

Publisher: The Limited Editions Club, 1967. Copy #232 of 1,000. Signed by the illustrator.

Condition: Hardcover, with slipcase. Slight wear to slipcase. Book in near fine condition. With 12 colour plates, pictorial endpapers. 164pp., 11″ by 8″. A large book, overseas shipping will cost extra.

A beautiful edition of The Invisible Man, published by the Limited Editions Club and signed by the illustrator, containing 12 colour plates. Copy #232 of 1,000. With illustrated endpapers, and a papercut insert for decorative purposes. Blind-embossed decorations on the title page.

About The Invisible Man (from Wikipedia):

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson’s Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man the title refers to is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body’s refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. An enthusiast of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.

While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first-person narrators, Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view in The Invisible Man. The novel is considered influential, and helped establish Wells as the “father of science fiction”.