8vo. viii, 245pp, [3]. First page numbered '2'. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's pictorial red cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Hinges starting, early ink-stamp of M. C. Aston to head of half-title, leaves lightly toned.

The first edition of Wells's highly influential science fiction novel. The Invisible Man was issued in four distinct editions in its first year of publication, each with a variant ending; initially serialised in Pearson's Weekly between June and August, the first edition in book form appeared in September, with the second edition shortly thereafter in November - the same month as the first American edition.