Front matter

“I was progressing in great leaps and bounds” Frontispiece.

The First Men in the Moon

By

H. G. Wells

Author of “Tales of Space and Time,” “Love and Mr. Lewisham,” and “Anticipations”

“Three thousand stadia from the earth to the moon.... Marvel not, my comrade, if I appear talking to you on super-terrestrial and aerial topics. The long and the short of the matter is that I am running over the order of a Journey I have lately made.”—Lucian’s Icaromenippus

London

George Newnes, Limited

Southampton Street, Strand

1901