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The Napoleon / of / Notting Hill / By / Gilbert K. Chesterton / With Seven Full-Page Illustrations by / W. Graham Robertson / and a Map of the Seat of War / John Lane: The Bodley Head / London & New York. MDCCCCIV
Pp. ix, 304. Half-title, p. [i]; [ii] blank; Frontispiece, not included in pagination; Title-page, p. [iii]; Copyright in U.S.A., 1904. / William Clowes & Sons, Limited, London and Beccles., p. [iv]; Dedicatory poem, To Hilaire Belloc, pp. v, vi; Contents, pp.vii, viii; Illustrations, p. ix; [10-12] blank; 13-[301] text, [302] blank; [303, 304] advertisements. The seven full-page illustrations are tipped in to face the title-page and pp. 16, 70, 104, 190, 220, 264 and 296. The title-page is mounted on a stub.
Olive-green cloth lettered in black. Front: THE NAPOLEON / OF / NOTTING HILL / [picture of roof-tops and water tower in black and red] / GILBERT K. CHESTERTON [All within a double ruled border.] Spine: [rule] / THE / NAPOLEON / OF / NOTTING / HILL / G. K. CHESTERTON / [figure in black and red] / JOHN LANE / [rule] [All within a ruled border]. Top edges green, others uncut.
A. As above. BM 22 April 04.
B. Top edges green, others trimmed.
C. Front and spine lettered in red, otherwise as A.
D. As A, but foot of spine reads THE BODLEY HEAD in place of JOHN LANE.
Published March 22, 1904, at 6s. 5,000 copies.
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Fiction, Classic Literature, Science Fiction, Politics and government, English fiction, Political fiction, Fantastic fiction, London (england), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, political, Fiction, fantasy, general, Translations into Russian, Fiction, general, Fantasy fiction, Notting Hill (London, England) -- FictionPeople
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First Impression. Crown 8vo. Includes publisher's advertisements at end. Original retail price: 6s or $1.50.
Issued in green buckram. Laid end papers. All edges uncut.
NOTE.—Later issues of the first edition have lettering in red, instead of black, on front cover.
Published in the UK: 22 March 1904; in USA: April 1904.
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A witty and surreal novel of the future.
In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war between the boroughs of London.
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