The Wonderful Visit.

The Wayfarer’s Library edition of Wells’ early fantasy novel in which the arrival of a mysterious winged visitor exposes the prejudices and moral limitations of conventional Victorian society. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest. Priest’s most famous works include The Inverted World (1974), the interconnected “Dream Archipelago” series, and The Prestige (1995), which was adapted into the 2006 Academy Award nominee film of the same name by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, and Michael Caine. In very good condition with extremities to the spine.