The First Men in the Moon / A Modern Utopia

Dated 1st printing of this 2017 edition. Title page:

• "The First Men [over] in the Moon [over] A Modern Utopia [over] H. G. Wells"
• "with an Introduction by [over] David Stuart Davies"
• Wordsworth colophon [over] "Wordsworth Classics".
• Note that the two titles are not conflated here as they are on the front cover.

Copyright page:

• "First published in 2017 by Wordsworth Editions Limited [over] 8B East Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9HJ"
• "ISBN 978 1 84022 744 4"
• "Text © Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2017"
• "Introduction © David Stuart Davies, 2017"
• "This paperback edition published in 2004 [over] by Phoenix, [over] an imprint of Orion Books Ltd, [over] Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, [over] London WC2H 9EA"
• "Revised edition"
• "Text copyright by the Literary Executors [over] of the Estate of H.G. Wells"
• "Printed and bound by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
• No numberline.

Back cover:

• "Cover design by Robert Mathias"
• "Cover Illustration: Carolyn Arcabascio"
• No price.

Month/day from Amazon UK as of 2024-02-21. ToC for whole publication, page 5. Page 8 is the first numbered page. The Biography is signed on page 9 "Simon J. James [over] Professor of English Literature at Durham University [over] and author of Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, [over] Modernity and the End of Culture". Introduction is unsigned and is followed by "Further Reading" for both novels. Although the latter is uncredited, it was probably compiled by Davies. Chapter 10 of the first novel is titled "Lost Men in the Woods", ToC lists it as the same. First novel finishes on page 193. Pages 194 to 201 are unnumbered. Second novel half-title page, 195. Title page 197. ToC for remainder of book, page 199. "A Note to the Reader" is signed, page 203, "H. G. Wells". Second novel starts on unnumbered page 205, finishes page 403. The last essay is titled above the work: "Appendix [over] Scepticism of the Instrument", "A portion of a paper read to the Oxford Philosophical Society, [over] November 8, 1903, and reprinted, with some revision, from [over] the version given in Mind, vol. xiii (N.S.), No. 51. [over] (See also Chapter One, section 6, and Chapter ten, sections 1 and 2.)" Gloss cover.

According to a news article in 'The Bookseller', dated 2017-06-05 (retrieved from archive.org 2024-02-21), the publisher recently increased the price of its Wordsworth Classics range from £2 (actually £1.99), the retail price since 2006, to £2.50.