• Publication: Twelve Stories and a DreamPublication Record # 639762
• Author: H. G. Wells
• Date: 1905-04-08
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Price:
  $1.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 331
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  1st US ed. apparently
  • Publ date and price from publisher advert NY Times 1905-04-08 p3 "Charles Scribner's Sons // Publish To-Day"; this one 2nd of 6
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of two copies, one from U Minnesota with original cover (gold stamped lettering on dark green cloth) -- copyright page: (c) 1897, 1898, ... 1903 (7) by Wells; 1905 by Scribner's; "Published April, 1905" -- text spans p3-331 -- no back pages (The U Minnesota copy appears to be a later printing from the list of Books by H. G. Wells on the first printed leaf, where the "A Modern Utopia" [1905] is appended. Otherwise the interiors appear to be identical.)
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Early Years: 2336
  • LCCN: 05011349
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 26867575 2162315

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 3 • Filmer • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 33 • The Magic Shop • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 53 • The Valley of Spiders • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 73 • The Truth About Pyecraft • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 91 • Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland)
• 115 • The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Inexperienced Ghost)
• 139 • Jimmy Goggles the God • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 161 • The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 185 • Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 215 • The Stolen Body • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 243 • Mr. Brisher's Treasure • (1899) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 261 • Miss Winchelsea's Heart • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 291 • A Dream of Armageddon • (1901) • novelette by H. G. Wells