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Column Current Record #[304387] Proposed Changes Warnings
Title The War of the Worlds -  
Transliterated Title - -  
Authors H. G. Wells -  
Date 1898-03-00 1898-03-00  
Publisher Harper & Brothers -  
Pub Series - -  
Pub Series # - -  
Pages 290 -  
Format hc -  
Pub Type NOVEL -  
ISBN - -  
Catalog ID - -  
Price $1.50 -  
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Web Page - -  
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• The full text and images of this edition are available at The Harvard Library. • No statement of printing on copyright page • Omits The Epilogue and has other minor textual differences [from the Heinemann edition] - [Currey] • Price/date from Atlantic Constitution 1898-03-27 "Books Received"
No statement of printing on copyright page. Omits The Epilogue and other minor textual differences [from the Heinemann edition]. --Currey OCLC: 702355 -- "New York ; London" -- "Frontispiece by Cosmo Row; other illustrations by Warwick Goble" -- 16 unnumbered leaves of plates Illustrations in the original serial are clearly signed by Rowe (headpiece) and Goble (interior); see Title Reference Publ date inferred from:   NY Tribune 1898-03-06 pC18 "Literary Notes" notice of Edward Arnold (NY) transfer to Harper; this "will be one of the first of these transferred works to appear"   SL Post-Dispatch 1898-03-19 p3 "Among the New Books"; this one "has been published" Price from notice Atl. Constitution 1898-03-27 p12 "Books Received"

-<br>• The full text and images of this edition are available at <a HREF="https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:6642280$1i">The Harvard Library.</a>
-• No statement of printing on copyright page
-• Omits <i>The Epilogue</i> and has other minor textual differences [from the Heinemann edition] - [Currey]
-• Price/date from <i>Atlantic Constitution</i> 1898-03-27 "Books Received"
+<br>
+No statement of printing on copyright page.
+Omits <i>The Epilogue</i> and other minor textual differences [from the Heinemann edition].
+--Currey
+<br><br>
+OCLC: <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702355">702355</a>
+-- "New York ; London"
+-- "Frontispiece by Cosmo Row; other illustrations by Warwick Goble"
+-- 16 unnumbered leaves of plates
+Illustrations in the original serial are clearly signed by Rowe (headpiece) and Goble (interior); see Title Reference
+<br><br>
+Publ date inferred from:
+&nbsp; <i>NY Tribune</i> 1898-03-06 pC18 "Literary Notes" notice of Edward Arnold (NY) transfer to Harper; this "will be one of the first of these transferred works to appear"
+&nbsp; <i>SL Post-Dispatch</i> 1898-03-19 p3 "Among the New Books"; this one "has been published"
+<br><br>
+Price from notice <i>Atl. Constitution</i> 1898-03-27 p12 "Books Received"
External IDs Bleiler Early Years: 2331
OCLC/WorldCat: 702355
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New Regular Titles

Page Title Authors Date Type Length Warnings
The War of the Worlds (frontispiece) Cosmo Rowe 1898-03-00 INTERIORART  
The War of the Worlds Warwick Goble 1898-03-00 INTERIORART  

Secondary Verifications

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Clute/Nicholls Verified SGale 2013-07-06 12:36:18
Tuck Verified Bluesman 2017-04-21 13:13:01
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) Verified Rtrace 2019-01-06 19:52:35
Currey Verified Bluesman 2009-12-07 17:44:38
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2009-12-07 17:44:38
Bleiler Early Years Verified Rtrace 2019-01-06 19:52:35

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Submitted by Pwendt (Talk) on 2017-03-19 17:23:01

Approved by Rkihara (Talk) on 2017-03-19 20:38:37

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