The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

Overview:

  • Title: The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Year: 1913
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons
  • Price: -/7
  • Pages: xii+574
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
  • Notes:
    • First British edition [?] • Contento and Tuck have the date as 1913 • Price from Tuck • OCLC record also has 1913 though it seems unlikely it took two years for a simultaneous release to get to Britain In fact, the cited WorldCat record OCLC 21496476 reports year "1913?" and does not report a 1st edition. And that record cited for the [1911] edition, {{OCLC|2234553}} reports London the first-listed publisher location. British Library records as "[1911]" and "[1913]", {{BL|003885876}} and BL 003885877 both state "London : Thomas Nelson & Sons".

    August publication in Nelson's Sevenpenny Library (Nelson's Library, hardcover format) is clear from the earliest 1913 notices found: The Weekly Irish Times 1913-07-26 p16 notice that another is "now issued", and this is the "next volume"; and listing in The Bookman 1913-08 among "Forthcoming Books, August 1st to September 1st".

    HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy from U Virginia, catalogued as "London, T. Nelson and sons, [1913?]". -- frontispiece painting(?) signed Dudley Tennant(?) title page undated, lists London first of multiple locations
    Pagination 1 to 574 covers all printed pages in one series. -- Introduction, p[iii]-ix -- Contents, p[xi]-xii, lists stories I to XXIII -- stories span p15-574