The Plattner Story and Others

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Overview:

Title: The Plattner Story and Others
Author: H. G. Wells
Year: 1897
Publisher: Methuen
Price: 6/-
Pages: vii+301
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: The Plattner Story and Others
Notes:
• No statement of printing on copyright page • Price from Tuck • An OCLC record notes the month from a publisher's catalogue in the back of the book

This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #42989 (see). The ebook (viewed in HTML format) begins with a front cover image: design as displayed here, nearly maroon in hue. It accurately represents all front material including layout.

HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover: -- front cover: gold lettering on maroon cloth -- title page -- stories span p1-301; printer statement p[302] -- 40 back pages (images 317-56): "A Catalogue of Books and Announcements of Methuen and Company ..." (header) and (first-page footer) "March 1897"

Full title and subtitle "In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story" appear only on page 224, with short title "In the Modern Vein" in the Contents list.