- Publication: God the Invisible KingPublication Record # 638832
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Author:
H. G. Wells
- Date: 1917-05-10
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Publisher: Cassell & Company
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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).
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Pages: xvii+206
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Format:
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Type: NONFICTION
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Notes: - 1st ed.
Publication date represents 1st printing
Publisher advertisement The Observer 1917-07-01 p4 specifies 4th printing, also 6/-
- Publ date from notice at the foot of publisher advertisement Manchester Guardian 1917-04-27 p3: "The new volume ... ready on 10th May."
The same newspaper -05-18 notes a review by J.C. Squire "in this week's Land & Water".
The Scotsman -05-21 p4 notes that "God the Invisible King" is reviewed on p. 2 --not available to this contributor 2017-10-30.
- Price from publisher advert ("The House of Cassell, E.C.4") The Observer -05-06 p4, this one as "God the Invisible King" and "[Ready May 10]"
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of two copies, one from U California with original cover apparently
-- title page
-- Preface, p.v-xvii
-- Contents, p[xix], lists 8 chapters
-- text spans p1-[206]; footer "Printed by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C. 4" over "F90.417"
The title is fashioned "God the Invisible King", on one line and so capitalized, at the top of page 1, which also shows the two-line heading of chapter 1 and the beginning of the text.
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External IDs:
Nonfiction Title:
God the Invisible King • non-genre • (1917) • nonfiction by
H. G. Wells
