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My First Aeroplane

H. G. Wells

First published 1914
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Little Mother #1


First published January 1910 in The Strand Magazine 39:1, pp. 57-64, as "My First Aeroplane (Alauda Magna)", with six "Illustrations in Colour by Tom Browne, R.I." --artwork credit from the volume Index (viewed at HathiTrust)

Some later publications use the long title variously fashioned, such as:   My First Aëroplane Alaudra Magna

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1914 Le Pays des aveugles Mercure de France Collection 67
January 1926 The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Tauchnitz Collection |8
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 623
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 623
September 1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 623
October 1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 623
1929 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection
1929 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells The Literary Guild Collection
1937 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 549
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Garden City Publishing Co. Collection 549
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 549
1948 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 623
1957 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 623
1960 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
1965 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
September 1966 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 561
1974 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 561
1979 Cover Das Kristallei Reclam Leipzig Collection 213
1987 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells St. Martin's Press Collection 561
1987 Cover Das Kristallei Reclam Leipzig Collection 213
August 1998 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells J. M. Dent Collection 655
April 2011 Cover Complete Short Story Omnibus Gollancz Collection 710