1897 H. G. WELLS. First Edition WAR OF THE WORLDS. One of Earliest Alien Invasion Tales!

An absolutely superb first serialized edition of the most influential alien invasion science fiction work ever produced. The finest copy we can trace in this form.  The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, was written between 1895 and 1897, and first published as a serial simultaneously in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the United States in 1897. The book form novel was not published until 1898. The now-classic work is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race ever written, and certainly the first to gain popular influence. It remains one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. The plot has been variously interpreted as a commentary on the theory of evolution, imperialism, and Victorian era fears, superstitions and prejudices. Wells himself later noted that inspiration for the plot was the catastrophic effect of European colonization and imperialism on the Aboriginal Tasmanians. The War