The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

15 stories, 1894 to 1895 This was the first UK collection of Wells containing speculative fiction stories, and his second-published literary book after the non-genre Select Conversations With an Uncle [...] (1895), a joint UK/US publication.

Ten of 15 stories are included in the 1897 US collection Thirty Strange Stories. The five others were uncollected in the US for many years: • Through a Window (1894) • The Temptation of Harringay (1895) • The Flying Man (1895) • The Diamond Maker (1894) • The Hammerpond Park Burglary (1894), non-genre

In the 1895 Methuen ed. (viewed at HathiTrust) this untitled note on previous publications precedes the Contents list:   (quote) Most of the stories in this collection appeared originally in the Pall Mall Budget, two were published in the Pall Mall Gazette, and one in St James's Gazette. I desire to make the usual acknowledgments. The third story in the book was, I find, reprinted by the Observatory, and the "Lord of the Dynamos" by the Melbourne Leader. (flushright) H. G. Wells

1st ed. • No statement of printing on copyright page • First printing has 32-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear dated SEPTEMBER 1895. [Currey]

HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of one copy from Harvard University, catalogued as "London : Methuen, 1895", which may be re-bound (plain maroon cloth): -- bookplate: acquired with money from the sale of duplicates -- title page missing -- unprinted page (back of half-title or title) shows library stamp date 1919-05-03 Images of the half-title page, dedication, untitled note on previous publications (closing "H. G. Wells", no date), and Contents list precede the paginated span, the stories p[1]-275. The last image of a printed page shows printer statement only, evidently p[276]. No publisher catalogue, nor other back matter.

That HDL e-copy of a 275-page ed./printing is the source for story titles and page numbers below. In the Contents list only, the penultimate story title is fashioned thus:   A Moth—Genus Novo