The War of the Worlds
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Overview:
- Title: The War of the Worlds
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Year: 1898
- Publisher: William Heinemann
- Price: 6/-
- Pages: viii+303
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The War of the Worlds
- Notes:
• No statement of printing on copyright page • Issued with 32-page publisher's catalogue in the back • Page 1 of the catalogue is headed The Open Question. • Page 32 of the catalogue is headed "The Latest Fiction" and includes Stephen Crane's Active Service which Heinemann published in Fall 1899, which would indicate a later binding. • Per Currey, this is issue D of the issues with a catalogue. • The first edition was also issued without the catalogue and Currey gives no priority between issues with or without the catalogue. • Price from review Manchester Guardian 1898-01-25