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Publication: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

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  • Publication: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 366868
  • Author: Ralph Adams Cram
  • Date: 1896-03-00
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus
  • Pub. Series: Handy Novels
  • Price:
    1/6?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).
  • Pages: 151
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Notes:
    • 1st UK ed.
    • Publication date, series, and price from listings in "Chatto & Windus's New Novels", February/March 1896, as "Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d." with annotations "[Shortly." (1896-02-08), "[March 12." (-03-07), and none (-03-11, -03-21). The latter panel, The Athenaeum #3569 1896-03-21 p391, lists this and one other book under heading (quote):   NEW "HANDY NOVELS."--Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d. each.
    • Last page unnumbered (inferred) --libraries report both US and UK eds. as 150 pages; see US pp. 150/151 (viewed at HathiTrust). Page numbers from the 1895 US ed. with identical page count.
    • As of August 2019, seven WorldCat library records report series "Handy Novels", including four as Chatto & Windus 1892 to 1896.
    • Tuck probably reports the short title only, as 160 pages.
  • External IDs:
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Collection Title: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories • collection by Ralph Adams Cram (variant of Black Spirits & White: A Book of Ghost Stories 1895)

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Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years Not Verified    
Bleiler Supernatural Not Verified    
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) Not Verified    
Bleiler78 Not Verified    
Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
Currey N/A Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
Reginald1 N/A Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
Tuck Verified Bluesman 2011-11-09 12:43:32
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