Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

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Overview:

Title: Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences
Author: H. G. Wells
Year: 1895
Publisher: John Lane / Merriam
Pages: 195
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences
Notes: No statement of printing on copyright page American edition with 5 pages of advertising inserted No. 3 of the Mayfair Set Wells' first published work

Unknown source for information in free-form notes (Probable immediate source is ISFDB "clone" of the WorldCat-reported 117-page 17-cm boxed 1st ed. (see), with modification of the second note only. But why "American"?)