Twelve Stories and a Dream

Overview:

  • Title: Twelve Stories and a Dream
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Year: 1903
  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Price: 3/6
  • Pages: 377
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Twelve Stories and a Dream
  • Notes:
      • No statement of printing on copyright page • Price from Tuck • Pages [379-84] comprise publisher's ads
    • WorldCat library records (OCLC, below) report size 19cm, 20cm, and 22cm; these three all as 377pp with identical list of 13 Contents in the sequence below.
    • OCLC 458935003 reports no size, same page-count and Contents, and notes (quote): Certaines de ces nouvelles ont été rééditées en 1911, dans "The Country of the blind."
    • Publication date from copyright page of apparent 2nd printing, which states (quote in full):   First Edition October 1903   Reprinted November 1903 (viewed at HathiTrust)
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of two copies, one with original cover. That with original cover is apparent 1st printing, copyright page blank; the other is apparent 2nd printing (above). Only the former contains the first printed leaf "By The Same Author", and advertisements following p377. They appear to be identical otherwise. -- title page shows (various fonts and sizes):   London   Macmillan and Co., Limited   New York : The Macmillan Company [small size]   1903 -- text spans p3-377; p377 footer "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh." -- back pages, apparent 1st printing only, comprise p[379-84] and 16-page catalog separately paginated