Publication: The Time Machine: An Invention and Other Stories

Publication: The Time Machine: An Invention and Other StoriesPublication Record # 288845
Author: H. G. Wells
Date: 1946-09-21
Catalog ID: 573
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pub. Series: Wells' Eightieth Birthday
Price:
1/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 284
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: COLLECTION
Notes: No statement of printing on copyright page. Note that Currey typos the catalogue # as 533 Despite the subtitle being included in the collection, the subtitle does not appear on the title page of the novel The Time Machine. Published in celebration of Wells' eightieth birthday limited to 100,000 copies.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 10537011
- Reginald-1: 15086

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • The Time Machine • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • (1895) • novel by H. G. Wells
103 • The Stolen Bacillus • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
111 • A Deal in Ostriches • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
116 • Through a Window • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
126 • The Flying Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
134 • The Diamond Maker • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
143 • The Lord of the Dynamos • non-genre • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
154 • The Hammerpond Park Burglary • non-genre • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
163 • The Argonauts of the Air • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
178 • The Cone • non-genre • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
192 • A Catastrophe • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
202 • A Slip Under the Microscope • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
224 • Filmer • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
245 • Jimmy Goggles the God • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
260 • The Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Pantoum in Prose • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Man Who Could Work Miracles)
281 • The Works of H. G. Wells • (1946) • essay by uncredited

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