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Original cloth with faintest discoloration to front board. With publisher’s catalogue (in state A) at rear, no priority (Currey, 426). “The novel 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). “Almost all of Wells’ best science fiction has an evolutionary subtext… The British Empire, like all others before it, represented the successful predation of the weak by the strong, and that was the subject, in a metamorphosed form, of The War of the Worlds” (Disch, 62-63).
Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of Wells’ classic and influential “scientific romance,” the archetypal tale of alien invasion (and the author’s clever critique of British imperialism). “IT NEVER WAS A WAR, ANY MORE THAN THERE’S WAR BETWEEN MEN AND ANTS”: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, FIRST EDITION
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