New York: Berkley Pub Group, 1991. Comic. Illus. by Rick Geary. Fine. Trade Paperback. First Edition/First Printing. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY..

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Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady’s maid. Although "Bertie" left school at fourteen to become a draper’s apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher’s salary. His other "scientific romances"— The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)—won him distinction as the father of science fiction. Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase "the war that will end war" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me."

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Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 019592
Title: Classics Illustrated: The Invisible Man
Author: Wells, H. G
Illustrator: Rick Geary
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
ISBN 10: 0425126633
ISBN 13: 9780425126639
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1991
Keywords: BRITISH IRISH FICTION FICTIONAL WORKS
Bookseller catalogs: Classics Illustrated;

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Pat Cramer, Bookseller

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About Pat Cramer, Bookseller

I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.

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