Wells (H.G.) The First Men in the Moon

London, Newnes, 1901.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Second state blue cloth blocked in black.

Wells’s last pure scientific romance of his great run, and his most charming: the bankrupt speculator Bedford and the unworldly Cavor, whose gravity-screening “cavorite” carries their sphere to the Moon – where the satire begins, in the caverns of the Selenites, a functionally perfect insect society whose citizens are grown to fit their jobs.