When the Sleeper Wakes

Overview:

  • Title: When the Sleeper Wakes
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Year: 1899
  • Publisher: Harper & Brothers
  • Price: 6/-
  • Pages: 329
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: When the Sleeper Wakes
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed. (UK) No statement of printing on copyright page This is the 1st ed. of the novel as a book, and the text is revised from that of the 1899 serial.
    • Cover title: When the Sleeper Wakes: A Story of the Years to Come
    • Publication date and price are from May 1899 advertisements and notices; eg, listings in "Harper & Brothers New and Forthcoming Books" as "[May 18th.", early and mid-May, and in "Harper's New Books" without annotation, Saturday Review -05-20 p637.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 2 copies without original cover: -- title page   "With Illustrations" (nowhere credited)   "London and New York ... 1899" -- narrative, p[1]-[329] (first and last unnumbered) -- no back matter
    • The illustrations are 3 among 18 published in the 18-part serial, most of which are legibly signed "H. Lanos".

      The frontispiece illustrates Ch III, "The Awakening". Its publication in the US serial (alone viewed at HathiTrust): Harper's Weekly 1899-01-14 page 39. Adapted by Frank R. Paul, it is also the front cover illustration for the inaugural issue of Amazing Stories (Winter 1928, see), wherein Hugo Gernsback published the entire 1899 version of the novel.
    • Price from Tuck (redundant source)