The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
| First published | 1911 |
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| Publisher | Mitchell Kennerley |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Collection |
| Pages | 153 |
| Price | $7.50 |
8 stories
- Limited edition, large format 38 cm "illustrated with photogravures from photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn"
- Only 600 copies of the collection were printed, all on French hand-made paper, in slip-case. • Kennerley was responsible for 540 of the copies • Remaining 60 bear the Grant Richards imprint.
- Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports concerning its Copy 3 as Kennerley (quote): Printed label on front pastedown: "Unfortunately, only three hundred sets of the illustrations were completed by the gravure process so that the missing illustrations are reproduced in this volume by the Aquatone process." In this copy the illustration mounted on p. [131] is reproduced by the Aquatone process.
- WorldCat records OCLC 786428413 as Kennerley and {{OCLC|3132125}} as Richards jointly report: -- "... Six hundred copies printed on French hand-made paper, in November 1911, and the types distributed."--Colophon. -- "10 mounted illustrations ; 38 cm (folio)" -- 8 story titles in the sequence below November 1911 is interpreted as the publication date here.
- Price from listing in "To-morrow's Books Review" (NYT Review of Books), NY Times 1912-02-17 p9, as one of the books reviewed tomorrow.
| Year | Reviewer | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Baird Searles | Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 13, 1981 |
| 1991 | Everett F. Bleiler | Science Fiction: The Early Years (Pages 545 - 998) |
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| |1 | The Door in the Wall | H. G. Wells | Short Story |
| |2 | The Star | H. G. Wells | Short Story |
| |3 | A Dream of Armageddon | H. G. Wells | Novelette |
| |4 | The Cone | H. G. Wells | Short Story |
| |5 | A Moonlight Fable | H. G. Wells | Short Story |
| |6 | The Diamond Maker | H. G. Wells | Short Story |
| |7 | The Lord of the Dynamos | H. G. Wells | Short Story |
| |8 | The Country of the Blind | H. G. Wells | Novelette |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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| The Door in the Wall and Other Stories | 1911 | Grant Richards | Hardcover | Collection | 153 | |||
| The Door in the Wall and Other Stories | 1915 | Grant Richards | Hardcover | Collection | 153 | |||
| The Door in the Wall and Other Stories | 1980 | David R. Godine | Hardcover | Collection | 157 | |||
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1980 | David R. Godine | Trade Paperback | Collection | 157 | ||
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2004 | Wildside Press | Hardcover | Collection | 151 | ||
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2004 | Wildside Press | Trade Paperback | Collection | 156 | ||
| The Door in the Wall and Other Stories | 2005 | Project Gutenberg | eBook | Collection | 456 | |||
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2005 | Dodo Press | Trade Paperback | Collection | 118 | ||
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2013 | Bottom of the Hill Publishing | Trade Paperback | Collection | 106 |