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Twelve Stories and a Dream

H. G. Wells

First published 1903
Publisher Macmillan and Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 377
Price 3/6

    • No statement of printing on copyright page • Price from Tuck • Pages [379-84] comprise publisher's ads
  • WorldCat library records (OCLC, below) report size 19cm, 20cm, and 22cm; these three all as 377pp with identical list of 13 Contents in the sequence below.
  • OCLC 458935003 reports no size, same page-count and Contents, and notes (quote): Certaines de ces nouvelles ont été rééditées en 1911, dans "The Country of the blind."
  • Publication date from copyright page of apparent 2nd printing, which states (quote in full):   First Edition October 1903   Reprinted November 1903 (viewed at HathiTrust)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of two copies, one with original cover. That with original cover is apparent 1st printing, copyright page blank; the other is apparent 2nd printing (above). Only the former contains the first printed leaf "By The Same Author", and advertisements following p377. They appear to be identical otherwise. -- title page shows (various fonts and sizes):   London   Macmillan and Co., Limited   New York : The Macmillan Company [small size]   1903 -- text spans p3-377; p377 footer "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh." -- back pages, apparent 1st printing only, comprise p[379-84] and 16-page catalog separately paginated

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Twelve Stories and a Dream 1905 Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover Collection 331
Twelve Stories and a Dream Cover 2004 Wildside Press Hardcover Collection 212
Twelve Stories and a Dream Cover 2004 Alan Rodgers Books / Wildside Press Trade Paperback Collection 212
Twelve Stories and a Dream Cover 2006 The Echo Library Trade Paperback Collection 140
Twelve Stories and a Dream 2008 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 1743
Twelve Stories and a Dream Cover 2013 Bottom of the Hill Publishing Trade Paperback Collection 178