WELLS, Herbert George. The Time Machine, London: William Heinemann, 1895. 8°, half title, (spotting mainly to endpapers), 16-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end, original tan cloth with winged Sphinx and lettering stamped in purple on upper cover (extremities lightly rubbed), bookplate of John Taylor Ewen. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on half title 'J. T. Ewen with the blessing of H. G. Wells'.