Two and Two Make Five
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Overview:
- Title: Two and Two Make Five
- Author: Vernon Knowles
- Year: 1935
- Publisher: George Newnes
- Price: 7/6
- Pages: 255
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Curious Activities of Basil Thorpenden
- Notes:
- 12 stories Undated Bleiler reports 16 stories (see).
- November 1935 publication is inferred from the nature and timing of the six genuine hits found in title search of 1935 newspapers, all -11-22 to -12-13.
- Two publisher advertisements both report "[12/Twelve] Fantastic Tales", price 7/6 net: • The Spectator -11-22 p38, "An elegant volume, expensively bound and printed on cream-laid paper, with a distinguished pictorial dust jacket. A perfect Christmas book." • Manchester Guardian -12-05 p33, with image showing most of the jacket, front and spine, matching the image linked here. Neither mentions interior illustrations. Nor do two "Books Received" listings, November, nor two reviews, December.
- "[A]n affection for the fantastic, the tale of wonder ... is a feeling for which Mr Vernon Knowles caters to good purpose in the dozen tales contained in the present volume. In the main, the stories might be said to hover about midway between the unquestioningly accepted marvellous of 'The Arabian Nights' and the quasi-scientific plausibility of Mr. H. G. Wells." --review in "New Books", The Scotsman 1935-12-09 p13
- Known library records (BL and OCLC, below, and two other WorldCat records) all report "[1935]" (year not stated), 255 pages, and none reports illustrations. OCLC 6713352 alone provides a Contents list.