The Invisible Man. First Edition (1897)
Book ID: 69214
Price: €1,250.00
The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance. London: C Arthur Pearson Ltd 1897. First Edition. Pp vii, 245, [2]. Publisher’s red cloth boards, title in gilt to upper cover & spine, drawing in black to upper cover. Title page printed in red & black. Light shelf-wear with pale stain to tail of spine, evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedown, contents pages age-toned; overall a very good copy.
One of Wells’ most important novels, among the work that paved the way for modern Science Fiction.
The Invisible Man of the title 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.
Originally serialized in Pearson’s Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year.
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