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<PubUpdate>
<Record>291428</Record>
<Submitter>Pwendt</Submitter>
<Subject>The Lair of the White Worm</Subject>
<Note>2009-06-12:
This ebook edition is available in EPUB, MOBI, Plucker, HTML, and ASCII formats as <a HREF="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1188">Ebook #1188</a>. <br>
"Transcribed form [sic] the 1911 W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. edition by David Price" <br>
<br><br>
2019-06-06:
Now as "Release Date: March 27, 2005 [eBook #1188]", with some change in the list of available formats.
WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports the 2005 edition/release.
<br><br>
<b>Abridged edition</b>
The text is that of the undated 1925 Abridged edition (28 chapters rather than 40), which begins "Adam Salton sauntered into the Empire Club, Sydney, ...".
<br><br>
The 1925 abridgment has been published many times as the original, or as dated 1911, and sometimes published with a statement such as "First published by William Rider & Son in 1911", which is true of the <b>original novel in its 1st ed.</b> (<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?291496">see at ISFDB</a> with linked view at HathiTrust).
&nbsp; As of June 2019, several ISFDB publication Notes include one item that begins "Abridged edition", such as the above.</Note>
<ModNote>Momentarily report this submission at Moderator’s noticeboard.</ModNote>
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