The Island of Dr. Moreau

This is a unique edition of Moreau. The text of the first
(American) printed version (1896), with appended footnotes recording all
variants up to 1924 and annotations of whatever strictly needs such,
takes up little more than a third of its pages. Seven appendices provide
the only available transcription of Wells s first draft, details of the
emendations that he made before 1900 and reportedly intended to
incorporate in a future edition of the book, accounts of six film
versions and one stage adaptation of Moreau, critical synopses of
Moreau’s literary “children,” etc. Preceding all this are almost 50pp.
on Wells’s life and thoughts, with particular reference to Moreau.