Tono-Bungay

Overview:

• Title: Tono-Bungay
• Author: H. G. Wells
• Year: 1964
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Pages: 336
• Binding: Paperback
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: Tono-Bungay
• Notes:
  Dated, unpriced co-1st printing of this 1964 edition, this one to be sold in overseas markets. See below. Title page:
  • "Tono-Bungay [over] H. G. Wells"
  • Pan Books colophon.
  • "Pan Books Ltd : London"
  Copyright page:
  • "First published 1909"
  • "This edition published 1964 by Pan Books Ltd., [over] 8 Headfort Place, London S.W.1"
  • "Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay and Company, Ltd., [over] Bungay, Suffolk"
  Back cover:
  • "7/6 Australia, $1.25 Canada" (no British price)
  Spine:
  • "M47"
  PV1's printing is unpriced. Pan M Series issues were priced at 5/- in 1964 (from tikit.net). That site also shows a 1964 cover priced at 5/-. This would be a separate co-1st printing on ISFDB. See example 5/- cover here. Also from tikit.net: "Initial print runs were [...] with the proviso that at least half had to be sent to be sold abroad, hence the large number of books without a price on the cover." ToC on page 5. Title page for "Book One: The Days Before Tono-Bungay Was Invented" is unnumbered page 7. Chapter one starts on the first numbered page, 9. Novel finishes on unnumbered page 336. The interior art, in Chapter 3 "How We Made Tono-Bungay Hum", show sketches the main character's uncle made for advertising campaigns. They also appeared in volume 12 of the Atlantic Editions, published 1925 by T. Fisher Unwin (also by Charles Scribner's Sons). See images, from the Atlantic Edition, here: Health, Beauty and Strength, "Fog" poster, influenza epidemic. It's likely that the sketches were in the first 1909 editions. Gloss cover.