The History of Mr. Polly

Overview:

• Title: The History of Mr. Polly
• Author: H. G. Wells
• Year: 1946
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Price: 1/-
• Pages: 238
• Binding: Paperback
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: The History of Mr. Polly
• Notes:
  Apparent 1st printing of this 1946 commemorative edition, based on the fact that no printing number is stated in the book. fep:
  • "The History of [over] Mr. Polly [over] by [over] H. G. Wells [over] ( 574 )"
  Title page:
  • "The History of [over] Mr. Polly [over] by [over] H. G. Wells"
  • Penguin colophon [over] "Penguin Books [over] Harmondsworth Middlesex England [over] 245 Fifth Avenue New York U.S.A."
  Copyright page:
  • "First published 1910"
  • "First published in Penguin Books [over] 1946"
  • "Made and printed in Great Britain for Penguin Books Limited [over] by Hunt, Barnard and Co., Ltd., London and Aylesbury"
  Back cover:
  • Author photograph and short biography.
  Spine:
  • "574"
  Price on front cover. On the page before the title page is "This edition of The History of Mr. Polly is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Mr. Wells' works specially published in commemoration of his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Of each volume one hundred thousand copies have been printed. The companion volumes are: Tono-Bungay, The New Machiavelli, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine and Other Stories, A Short History of the World, The War of the Worlds, Love and Mr. Lewisham, The Invisible Man, Kipps". ToC on page 5. The novel starts on the first numbered page, 7, and finishes with "The End" on page 234. Follows is a 4-page list of "The Works of H. G. Wells" ending on the last numbered page, 238. Semi-gloss cover.