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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

WAR OF THE WORLDS illustrations at auction


From the Biblio.com blog

An incredible collection of pen-and-ink illustrations for the 1906 edition of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is now on auction in Beverly Hills.
Brazilian artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa, whose imagination was spurred after reading a French edition of the science fiction classic, produced some sketches of tripod aliens and death rays and brought them to Wells in London. Wells was so pleased with them (and so dissatisfied by the earlier illustrations commissioned for the 1898 first book form), he asked Corrêa to illustrate a 500-copy, limited edition published by L’Vandamme in Brussels.
Thirty illustrations, plus a promotional poster and a postcard from Wells to Corrêa, were consigned to Heritage Auctions by collector Stefan Gefter.

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