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  • Publication: When the Sleeper WakesPublication Record # 304395
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Date: 1899-05-18
  • Publisher: Harper & Brothers
  • Price:
    6/-?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: 329
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed. (UK) No statement of printing on copyright page This is the 1st ed. of the novel as a book, and the text is revised from that of the 1899 serial.
    • Cover title: When the Sleeper Wakes: A Story of the Years to Come
    • Publication date and price are from May 1899 advertisements and notices; eg, listings in "Harper & Brothers New and Forthcoming Books" as "[May 18th.", early and mid-May, and in "Harper's New Books" without annotation, Saturday Review -05-20 p637.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 2 copies without original cover: -- title page   "With Illustrations" (nowhere credited)   "London and New York ... 1899" -- narrative, p[1]-[329] (first and last unnumbered) -- no back matter
    • The illustrations are 3 among 18 published in the 18-part serial, most of which are legibly signed "H. Lanos". The frontispiece illustrates Ch III, "The Awakening". Its publication in the US serial (alone viewed at HathiTrust): Harper's Weekly 1899-01-14 page 39. Adapted by Frank R. Paul, it is also the front cover illustration for the inaugural issue of Amazing Stories (Winter 1928, see), wherein Hugo Gernsback published the entire 1899 version of the novel.
    • Price from Tuck (redundant source)
  • External IDs:
    • BL: 003886201
    • Bleiler Early Years: 2332
    • Bleiler Gernsback: 1704
    • OCLC/WorldCat: 8630059 699740
    • Reginald-1: 15114
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Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years Verified Rtrace 2019-01-07 20:11:33
Bleiler Supernatural N/A Rtrace 2019-01-07 20:11:33
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) Verified Rtrace 2019-01-07 20:11:33
Bleiler78 Verified SGale 2013-07-05 14:13:48
Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2017-04-21 14:02:40
Clute/Nicholls Verified SGale 2013-07-06 12:37:25
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2009-12-07 19:43:59
Currey Verified Bluesman 2009-12-07 19:43:59
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2009-12-07 19:43:59
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2009-12-07 19:43:59
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2009-12-07 19:43:59
Reginald1 Verified Bluesman 2017-04-21 14:02:40
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2017-04-21 14:02:40
Tuck Verified Bluesman 2017-04-21 14:02:40
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