New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1895. First American edition in the second state red cloth binding with gold stamping on spine and front panels (Currey pp. 524-25.) About good overall. Spine panel sunned, several small stains to front panel. Margin notes in pencil and ink within the text with a larger note in pencil on the rear free endpaper. Two small cracks in the binding but no loose or missing pages. Lean to spine. Wells' first published novel and of science fiction's iconic works. An adequate starter copy for the science fiction collector.