The Time Machine
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Overview:
- Title: The Time Machine
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: The Easton Press
- Pages: xi+108
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Time Machine
- Notes:
- "COLLECTOR'S EDITION" (over) "Bound in Genuine Leather" stated on the title page.
- "The special contents of this edition are copyright 1964, 1992, © 2002 by The Easton Press..." stated on the copyright page. No stated date of publication. The introduction by Zebrowski is dated "February 10, 1997".
- This volume was available by subscription only.
- One of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series, indicated by the logo printed on the endpapers.
- No ISBN, no printed price, and no dustjacket as issued.
- The uncredited illustrative cover design is repeated on the back.
- Pages are gilt-edged and there is a gold satin ribbon bookmark bound into the book.
- Joseph Mugnaini's artwork, credited on the title page only, consists of 6 color glossy plates on unnumbered pages and multiple half-page B&W drawings throughout the novel. These are reprinted from the 1964 Heritage Press edition of Wells' The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds, which may explain this book's copyright date.
- "Collector's Notes" (uncredited) are on a double-sided laid-in sheet.
- This edition appears to be a partial facsimile reprint of the 1964 Heritage Press edition.
- Frontispiece artist credit on title page, and frontispiece is a portrait painting of Wells.
- Afterword by Brian W. Aldiss appears to be the same as the Introduction in previous editions and is dated 1986-12-17.