Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul / The History of Mr Polly

Overview:

  • Title: Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul / The History of Mr Polly
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Year: 2017
  • ISBN-10: 9781840227437
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
  • Price: £2.50
  • Pages: 485
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul
  • Notes:
    Dated 1st printing of this 2017 edition. Title page:
    • "Kipps [over] The Story of a Simple Soul [over] The History of Mr Polly"
    • "H. G. Wells [over] with an Introduction and Notes by [over] Jonathan Wild [over] University of Edinburgh"
    • Wordsworth colophon [over] "Wordsworth Classics".
    Copyright page:
    • "First published in 2017 by Wordsworth Editions Limited [over] 8B East Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9HJ"
    • "ISBN 978 1 84022 743 7"
    • "Text © Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2017"
    • "Introduction and Notes © Jonathan Wild, 2017"
    • "Printed and bound by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
    • No numberline.
    Back cover:
    • "Cover Design by Robert Mathias"
    • "Cover Illustration: Carolyn Arcabascio"
    • "ISBN 978-1-84022-743-7"
    • No price.
    Month/day from Amazon UK as of 2024/02/17. See 'The Bookseller' pricing note here. "Kipps and The History of Mr Polly" appears on the front cover, spine, and back cover, but given in full on the title page. First numbered page is 8. The Biography is signed, on page 9, "Simon J. James [over] Professor of English Literature at Durham University [over] and author of Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, [over] Modernity and the End of Culture". Introduction is signed on page 23 "Jonathan Wild" and is followed, on page 24, by "Work Cited". Pages 33 and 313 are the starts of the bodies of the works; given as pages 25 and 307 in the ToC. The novels are each preceded by their own ToC. The pagination given in each is wrong. For the first novel the pagination only makes sense if 28 is added to the page numbers given (i.e. the preceding essays are ignored). For the second novel, 32 should be added to the ToC page numbers. The page 483 essay finishes on the last numbered page, 485. Cover: gloss image on semi-gloss ground.