What's in Your Wells Collection?

[Stormdragon666]

David said:

Bloody Nora!!.

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I don't have any books of him but my mother in law has them like the time machine, war of the worlds, and a other book I forgot but it's a omnibus

[malfunkshun]

All my books are packed away at the moment, but I do have a really nice leatherbound acid free paper Wells collection containing The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The First Men in the Moon, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The Food of the Gods. It was given to me as a gift for my 14th birthday. It also has some Warwick Goble illustrations.

I also have the Watermill Classics 1980 print of WOTW, and also the Pocket Books 1988 print which plugs the TV show.

As for other books...

old tattered paperbacks:
The Time Machine
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Invisible Man
The First Men in the Moon

Since they're packed away, I don't know the publisher or date of any of those, but they're all pretty old, pre-1970 at least.

Other stuff:

WOTW PC game
Jeff Waynes musical version, on CD, and an old tape my granddaddy made of it for me back in 1980. He has the original record.

I almost bought the Playstation game on e-bay, but the bidding got up to $40.00 and I let the other guy have it.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]Thanks to the love of my life I now add to my earlier list the recent reprint of Little Wars, H.G. Wells own wargaming rules!
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[amber14]

I don't want to brag but I think I have just about everything, though unfortunately a lot of it is in storage until I get some more bookcases fixed up

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]Really? I doubt Charles or H_C have just about everything. (Read league of extraordinary gentlemen yet Charles?)

You must be rich!
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[Geis]

> Now if I could just get my hands on a Looking Glass
> version with the Gorey illustrations...

I first read that back in elementary school. It was one of the first sci-fi books I ever read and, as you might guess, it influenced me greatly. It took me 5 years to track down a copy of my very own.

I have 3 other copies of The War of the Worlds by itself. I have "The Complete War of the Worlds", which has stuff on the 53 movie and the 38 radio version, and "The Critical Edition" which has history and annotation. I have the Action Classics RPG on order at my local game store (which includes the full text) and I have a file on my PDA.

Add to that "The Time Machine", "Star Begotten", the "H.G.Wells Treasury of World Masterpieces" (which has most of his novels collected) and "28 Science Fiction Stories" (which includes the "prequel" The Crystal Egg.)

I also have two copies of "First Men in the Moon", one with a personalized illustration by Bob Eggleton (I was on a panel with him at WorldCon a few years back)

I have the George Pal WotW, "The Invisible Man" (Claude Raines!) and "Things to Come" on VHS. I have the '38 radio drama on CD and as an MP3. I have the Jeff Wayne stuff also as MP3. I have the video game based on Jeff Wayne's stuff and ripped the background music from that to MP3.

I have "Global Dispatches", "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" vol 2, "Scarlet Traces", "Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds" and a rare copy of Garrett Serviss's "Edison's Conquest of Mars". (That took me about 10 years to track down).

[jeffwaynefan]

Bayne said:

[glow=red,2,300]Really? I doubt Charles or H_C have just about everything. (Read league of extraordinary gentlemen yet Charles?)

You must be rich!
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Funny enough I have two spare copies of 'Just About Everything'. Its one of H.Gs very rare books ;D

H_C

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]Now, thanks to DF I have The Space Machine by Christopher Priest to add to my collection

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[TheDoctor]

I have a book of every H. G. Wells short story....and I have a taped 'The Time Machine' (the old one) and the more modern version on DVD!

I also have 'The War Of The Worlds' (1958) version on tape!

[kingofthemorlocks]

The Complete War of the Worlds
The Invisible Man
The Food of the Gods (got it for $.50 at a used book sale)
The First Men in the Moon
Selected Stories of H.G. Wells (it has the Land-Ironclads, The Crystal Egg, the New Accelerator, The Country of the Blind, etc., but neither The Sea-Raiders nor Aepyornis Island, two of my favorites)

[Winky]

ive got a movie prop from the spielberg one from being in it...i dun wanna say more cuz...who knows...shh!

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]You lucky $#!^
I'm massively jeolous!
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[the Donal]

Bloody gloaters! We get them all the time around here. They say "Can I come in? Just to have a quick gloat?"

Anyway, just added another to my meager Wells list- am reading the Time Machine at the moment having never read it before or seen either movie. Which is a very good thing.

So-
The War Of The Worlds
The First Men In The Moon
The Time Machine

The collection's, er, it's not growing paricularly quickly- so many other good books to read too. (will be expanding the Wyndham collection soon to- my other favourite Sci-Fi writer)

[twistedrabbit]

Here's some advice. See the modern Time Machine first, and then go back and see the old one. You might have a different reaction than most people.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]And tell us all what you think, it'll be rather interesting!
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[twistedrabbit]

Oh, I just picked up a metal minature. "The Personal Walker." -I forget what company made it...haven't got around to buying the glue and paint to put it together. Nice little collectible though.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]Is that the one from www.thelondonwarroom.com/Parroom%20page%208.htm

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[Xav]

I dont have any comics and such of Well's works but I do have quite a few of his original stuff, which I would count as being the ONLY ones really recognisable in this topic, everything else being plagiarised, surely? And I see that there is no mention of his "Short History of the World" or 'The Shape of Things to Come", both of which I have. These are both tremendous works, especially the latter.

[insidethecylinder]

Well, I've got a bit.

1. War of the Worlds - Edward Gorey re-release (pristine condition)

2. War of the Worlds - Tor classics 1993 paperback

3. Collector's Book of Science Fiction - WoTW with Warwick Goble illustrations

4. War of the Worlds - Special hardcover with Alvim Correa illustration on cover

5. Invisible Man - Tor classics 1997 paperback

6. Time Machine - AIE paperback 1992

7. Invisible Man and Time Machine - Signet paperback 1994

And I've got some more stuff boxed away as yet. But that's all I've got set up right now.

[mctoddridesagain]

When I started this list, I thought I had some catching up to do, but it looks like I've got a fair bit... And I want more!!! ;D

As far as I can see, I've got:

The War of the Worlds:

- Penguin paperback (1967)
- Pan paperback (1978 JW TC cover - the first one I ever bought)
- Pan paperback (1987)
- Great Illustrated Classics (1992, children's illustrated abridgement)
- Harper Collins (2001, Tom Kidd illustrations)
- Folio Society (2004)
- OUP (1995, p/b)
- Marshall Cavendish (1988, part of a magazine series on Great Authors)
- Collector's Book of Science Fiction (1978, Warwick Goble illustrations)
- The Complete WotW (includes CD of Orson Welles version)
- Marvel Comics (1981)

WotW-themed or related:

- The Second WotW
- LoEG2
- Global Dispatches
- The Space Machine (Christopher Priest)
- W G Grace's Last Case (Willie Rushton)
- Magentic Storms (bought for the Dean brothers' paintings)

Other Wells:

- The War in the Air (Penguin p/b)
- The War in the Air (1908, 1st ed)
- The Autocracy of Mr Parham (1935, 1st ed)
- What Are We To Do With Our Lives? (1935)
- All Aboard For Ararat! (1944)
- The Food of the Gods (Penguin p/b)
- The Food of the Gods (Airmont p/b)
- Men Like Gods
- The Shape of Things to Come (p/b - awful 1979 movie cover!)
- The Shape of Things to Come (p/b - earlier cover, based on 1936 movie)
- The World Set Free & The First Men in the Moon (one vol)
- Collected Short Stories
- The First Men in the Moon (Bob Eggleton illustrations)

Misc:

- The H G Wells Scrapbook (ed. Peter Haining)