Notes: No statement of printing on copyright page British edition with 16 pages of advertising inserted No. 3 of the Mayfair Set Title "Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct)" is from the title page of the book. In the Contents list, "Select Conversations" is a heading for the the 12 unnumbered conversations by name and page number. There is no following title page for the group. See the novelette for more information. A short preface ("Prefatory") precedes the Contents list but it pertains only to the Uncle and his Conversations with the narrator. The opening paragraph of the first conversation does mention "Reminisces" thus: "... all these accumulations [planned conversation, essentially] that he could not get into his talk, he proposed to put away for the big volume of "Reminiscences" that was to round off his life. At last he was a mere conversational firework, crammed with latent wit and jollity, and ready to blaze and sparkle in fizzing style as soon as the light of social intercourse should touch him."