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

London, Newnes, 1901.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. White endpapers. Original blue cloth stamped and lettered in gilt.

First edition of Wells’ pioneering science-fiction novel recounting the lunar journey of the inventor Cavor and the businessman Bedford, whose discovery of the anti-gravitational substance “cavorite” enables space travel and leads to contact with the subterranean Selenite civilisation.