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The adventures of Tommy / by H.G. Wells.

Accession number
PML 147346
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
Published
London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1929.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Reproduction of Wells' manuscript, with colored illustrations, facing each page of printed text.
"Printed in Great Britain by McLagen & Cumming, Edinburgh"--T.p. verso.
Written in 1898. First limited ed. published: London : Amalgamated Press, [1928], and subsequently printed in Woman's journal, Dec. 1928. The limited edition is a facsimile of the original whole pages of the manuscript, most of which have mutiple drawings; in this trade edition each of the drawings, with its related ms. text, is printed on a separate page, and the upper part of Wells' title page, with a drawing of Tommy, is omitted.
Description
44 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's yellow-orange boards backed with olive cloth with gold dust jacket printed in black.
Classification
Department