NMLP P-038641 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The First Men in the Moon

H. G. Wells · Bowen-Merrill Company (Indianapolis) · 1901

Grosset & Dunlap issued reprints printed from the original Bowen-Merrill sheets — these carry the G&D imprint at the foot of the spine and on the title page despite retaining the Bowen-Merrill text block, and are the most common trap for the American edition. Any spine or title page reading "Bobbs-Merrill" postdates the firm's 1903 renaming and cannot be the first state. No period book-club edition is documented.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038641 for "The First Men in the Moon" by H. G. Wells (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038641, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).