First American edition and first illustrated edition New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. First American edition and first illustrated edition. [x], 291 pp., illustrated with frontispiece and 15 black and white halftone plates by Warwick Goble. Bound in publisher's blue-green cloth stamped in gilt, light green and black. Near Fine with light rubbing and toning to covers, a few stray marks to textblock edges, and light soiling to front endsheet. Binding over-opened after fly-leaf and at p. 193, but holding strong. A lovely copy of the increasingly scarce first edition of the extraterrestrial sci-fi classic, famously adapted by Orson Welles for his Halloween radio broadcast in 1938. Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors. Currey p. 526.. Author: Wells, H. G.; Warwick Goble [Illustrator,Country of Origin: United States of America,Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers,Year Printed: 1898,Special Attributes: 1st Edition,Binding: Hardcover,Original/Facsimile: Original