Publication: The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

Publication: The Door in the Wall and Other StoriesPublication Record # 38591
Author: H. G. Wells
Date: 1911-11-00
Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley
Price:
$7.50^?$: US dollar
Pages: 153
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Notes:
- Limited edition, large format 38 cm "illustrated with photogravures from photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn"
- Only 600 copies of the collection were printed, all on French hand-made paper, in slip-case. • Kennerley was responsible for 540 of the copies • Remaining 60 bear the Grant Richards imprint.
- Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports concerning its Copy 3 as Kennerley (quote): Printed label on front pastedown: "Unfortunately, only three hundred sets of the illustrations were completed by the gravure process so that the missing illustrations are reproduced in this volume by the Aquatone process." In this copy the illustration mounted on p. [131] is reproduced by the Aquatone process.
- WorldCat records OCLC 786428413 as Kennerley and OCLC 3132125 as Richards jointly report: -- "... Six hundred copies printed on French hand-made paper, in November 1911, and the types distributed."--Colophon. -- "10 mounted illustrations ; 38 cm (folio)" -- 8 story titles in the sequence below November 1911 is interpreted as the publication date here.
- Price from listing in "To-morrow's Books Review" (NYT Review of Books), NY Times 1912-02-17 p9, as one of the books reviewed tomorrow.
External IDs:
- LCCN: 12-2683
- OCLC/WorldCat: 786428413 16276494
- Reginald-1: 15021 2340

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Collection Title: The Door in the Wall and Other Stories • (1911) • collection by H. G. Wells

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells
The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
A Dream of Armageddon • (1901) • novelette by H. G. Wells
The Cone • non-genre • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
A Moonlight Fable • non-genre • (1909) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Beautiful Suit)
The Diamond Maker • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
The Lord of the Dynamos • non-genre • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
The Country of the Blind • (1904) • novelette by H. G. Wells

Secondary Verifications

Source	Status	Verifier	Date
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Clute/Grant	N/A	Bluesman	2017-04-19 12:34:31
Clute/Nicholls	N/A	Bluesman	2017-04-19 12:34:31
Contento1 (anth/coll)	Verified	Bluesman	2009-12-05 11:33:48
Currey	Verified	Bluesman	2009-12-05 11:33:48
Locus1	N/A	Bluesman	2009-12-05 11:33:48
Miller/Contento	N/A	Bluesman	2009-12-05 11:33:48
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Bluesman	2009-12-05 11:33:48
Reginald1	Verified	Bluesman	2017-04-19 12:34:31
Reginald3	N/A	Bluesman	2017-04-19 12:34:31
Tuck	Verified	Bluesman	2017-04-19 12:34:31

Publication: The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

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Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

Secondary Verifications