Accession number
PML 147404
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
Published
London : J.M. Dent and Co.; New York : Macmillan Co., 1896.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First ed., first issue, with the colophon on verso of p. 313 and 10 p. of publisher's advertisements at end of text.
First published serially in Today in 1896.
"Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Edinburgh and London"--Colophon.
First published serially in Today in 1896.
"Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Edinburgh and London"--Colophon.
Description
xiii, 313, 10 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's presentation inscription on half t.p., with a sketch showing the author as a little boy wielding a wooden sword and wearing a paper hat as he charges a sheet hanging from a clothes line, with frogs escaping a washtub shown at right, and an inscription reading: Portrait of the author as his Auntie remembers him [signed] H.G. Wells.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's red cloth with lettering and pictorial design in gold.
Classification
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Department