H.G. Wells – Lot of 2 first editions: A Short History of the World & The Croquet Player [+ 2] – 1902/1936 On offer are 2 first editions of books by H.G. (Herbert George) Wells (Bromley, Kent 1866 – London 1946). Added are two paperback editions of other books: 1 A Short History of the World. Illustrated – London [etc.]: Cassel land Company, 1922 – xvi+432 p., cloth – 1st edition – Acceptable copy with a slightly damaged and repaired spine - From the library and with the bookplate of Durch writer Albert Kuyle (1904-1958). 2 The Croquet Player. A Story – London: Chatto & Windus, 1936 – 81 p., cloth – 1st edition – Nice copy with some traces of use. 3 The First Men in de Moon – Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1902 – 287 p., paperback – ‘Copyright edition’, shortly after the first edition of 1901 – Tauchnitz edition vol. 3577 – Acceptable copy, read, with traces of use. 4 The Sleeper Awakes – London, Glasgow: Collins’ Clear-Type Press, n.d. – 258 p., paperback – With a ‘Preface’ by Wells, dated 1921 – Acceptable copy, a small part of the spine is missing.