WELLS, Herbert George. The Sea Lady. New York: D. Appleton, 1902. 8° (188 x 122mm). 8 plates after Lewis Baumer (Marginal spotting and staining). Original pictorial cloth (some fading and slight soiling). Provenance: William Wymark Jacobs (half-title inscribed "To W.W. Jacobs. From H.G. Wells").
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTED TO JACOBS in preference to the unillustrated and plainly-bound English edition which "was not exhausted for many years". cf. Hammond B8.
WELLS, Herbert George. The Sea Lady. New York: D. Appleton, 1902. 8° (188 x 122mm). 8 plates after Lewis Baumer (Marginal spotting and staining). Original pictorial cloth (some fading and slight soiling). Provenance: William Wymark Jacobs (half-title inscribed "To W.W. Jacobs. From H.G. Wells").
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTED TO JACOBS in preference to the unillustrated and plainly-bound English edition which "was not exhausted for many years". cf. Hammond B8.
