8.5x11.25" softcover by Whitman #711 © 1938. Published shortly after the famous Orson Welles radio broadcast of the same year. Text on front cover reads "When They Told It On The Radio...It Terrified The Whole Country." 48 pages w/a number of bw illustrations throughout. Title page reads "A Newly Illustrated Digest Of H. G. Wells' Famous Story." Published by arrangement w/Harper & Brothers. Stiff cover has art on front, back cover is plain yellow. Cover has even aging, some spine wear/pinch creasing. Back cover has some dust soiling. Fine. Contents are evenly tanned w/age but are clean and supple. VF. Historic and rare publication.