The problem of the troublesome collaborator : an account of certain difficulties in an attempt to produce a work in collaboration and of the intervention of the Society of Authors therein / by H. G. Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

Contributor:

Incorporated Society of Authors, London.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thring, George Herbert, 1859-1941.

Thring, George Herbert.

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

Wells, H. G.

Authorship--Collaboration.

Authorship.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

73 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Woking : The Gresham Press.

Place of Publication:

[London] : [publisher not identified], [1930]

Notes:

At head of half-title: Private and confidential.

"Printed for circulation only among the members of the Society of Authors for their information and not for publication. The Editor of the Author is free to reprint this in full, but not to quote fragments. Otherwise the Copyright is strictly reserved."

This first edition, printed in 1930, consists of 175 copies."

"This pamphlet and the ... 'Settlement of the trouble between Mr. Thring and Mr. Wells' record a dispute between Wells and the Secretary of the Society of Authors regarding a proposed collaboration in 'The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind.' Subsequently the latter work was published under his (Wells') own name."--Cf. Hammond.

Orange wrapper lettered in black.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 35 signed by H. G. Wells.

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] slip with typewritten information about this item laid in.

Cited in:

Hammond, J.R. Herbert George Wells, F32

OCLC:

5883254