Green cloth period pictorial bindings. Dimensions are for one volume.

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A series of bound volumes of Pearson’s Magazine dating from the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. There are 20 vols. in total but do not form a complete run. They are attractively bound in period pictorial bindings. Includes the original printings of works by the likes of H.G. Wells, P.G. Wodehouse, Ridyard Kipling, Jack London, Rider Haggard, R.L.S. Stevenson, Arthur Ransome, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sylvia Pankhurst, etc

Pearson’s Magazine was a monthly periodical that first appeared in Britain in 1896. A US version began publication in 1899. It specialised in speculative literature, political discussion, often of a socialist bent, and the arts. Its contributors included Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Upton Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, Maxim Gorky, George Griffith, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Rafael Sabatini, Sapper, Dornford Yates and E. Phillips Oppenheim, many of whose short stories and novelettes first saw publication in Pearson’s.

It was the first British periodical to publish a crossword puzzle, in February 1922.

Notable serials

• H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (April–December 1897).
• C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis (July–December 1899)
• George Griffith’s Stories of Other Worlds (January–July 1900)

H. G. Wells’ The Sea Lady (1901)

Volumes available –   ( can be purchased individually on application)