“A highly significant literary experiment… served to reveal the potential of science fiction to couch serious questions” (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder II-1228). “Often regarded as the father of modern science fiction” (Clute & Grant, 1004), Wells wrote The Island of Dr. Anatomy of Wonder. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder , 1-100 Currey, L. Octavo, original tan cloth, frontispiece, spine lettered in black, front panel in red and black with illustration of the island, 32 publisher’s advertisements pages, rear stamped in blind with publisher’s monogram. His biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. From the library of Lytton Strachey with his bookplate. First edition, Currey Binding A of “the ultimate science fiction novel and the ultimate horror story” (Gene Wolfe).
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