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Publication: God, The Invisible King

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  • Publication: God, The Invisible KingPublication Record # 399594
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Date: 1917-05-10
  • Publisher: The Macmillan Company
  • Price:
    $1.25?$: US dollar
  • Pages: xx+174
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Notes:
    • 1st US ed., nearly simultaneous with Canada and UK eds.
    • Publ date from advance notice NY Times 1917-04-08, "is announced for publication on May 10"; apparently in effect a non-fiction sequel to Mr. Britling Sees It Through (non-genre, 1916)
    • Price from review NY Times 1917-05-13 pBR1 --as "God the Invisible King" in secondary headline but punctuated with a comma in line 1 bibliog data
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) lists full views of 11 copies, not examined 2017-11-07. EXCEPT that copy from U Michigan, briefly, to establish: -- it contains an original cover (gold lettering on red cloth) -- t.p. displays the title as does the UK ed., states 1917 -- t.p. verso states "Published, May, 1917."
    • None of the front pages (U Michigan copy viewed at HathiTrust) supports representation of the US title with a comma, rather than as the UK title unpunctuated, or with a colon.
  • External IDs:
Nonfiction Title: God, The Invisible King • non-genre • (1917) • nonfiction by H. G. Wells (variant of God the Invisible King)

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