Hardback, first edition. Brown cloth covered boards with black illustrative decoration to front and spine. Black lettering to spine. 250pp. Contents includes; 1. Story The First - The Plattner Story. 2. Story the Second - The Argonauts of the Air 3. Story the Third - The Late Mr Elvesham 4. Story the Fourth - In the Abyss 5. Story the Fifth - The Apple 6. Story the Sixth - Under the Knife 7. Story the Seventh - The Sea Raiders 8. Story the Eighth - Pollock and the Porroh Man 9. Story the Ninth - The Red Room 10. Story the Tenth - The Cone 11. Story the Eleventh - The Purple Pileus 12. Story the Twelfth - The Jilting of Jane 13. Story the Thirteenth - In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story 14. Story the Fourteenth - A Catastrophe 15. Story the Fifteenth - The Lost Inheritance 16. Story the Sixteenth - The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic 17. Story the Seventeenth - A Slip under the Microscope Condition: Good condition some rubbing to corners and corners slightly bumped. Some sunning to book edges and spine. Spine has slight small tears to cloth at top. Minor cloth discolouration (sunning) along top edge of boards. Owner name in pencil front facing end paper, dated 1934. Pages and page edges yellowing slightly. Text clean and binding tight.

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Bookseller: Book Attic (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0102900
Title: The Plattner Story and Others
Author: Wells, H.G
Format/Binding: Hbk.
Book Condition: Used- Very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ernest Benn Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1927
Pages: 250 pp.
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: English Literature- Classics;

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