Twelve Stories and a Dream
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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