• Publication: The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and FantasiesPublication Record # 432714
• Author: I. Zangwill
• Date: 1894-01-00
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Price:
  $1.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: x+400
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st ed., 1st printing Price from listing in publisher advertisement, Outlook 1894-01-13 p83, as "In the Press."
  • The book is noted "in press" again in "Literary Notes", NY Times -01-29 p3. Publication prior to that of the UK edition (Heinemann, March?) is not certain from newspapers.
  • Earliest found otherwise: "Zangwill's Stories", Chi. Tribune 1894-03-11 p40 (no price)--a substantial review by E.J.M. as "expected with interest on both sides of the Atlantic", by the Jewish novelist "favorably known to the readers of periodical literature".
  • Data are from the June 1909 ed./printing by The Macmillan Company (see), whose copyright page (viewed at Internet Archive) states:   Copyright, 1893,   By Macmillan and Co.   ------   Set up and electrotyped January, 1894. Reprinted April, 1894; September, 1895; January, 1897; October, 1898; August, 1899; June, 1909. [end quote; US printer statement follows]
  • This first edition, and its first two listed reprints, must be published by Macmillan and Co., as prior to the mid-1896 reorganization when Macmillan operations in New York City were incorporated as The Macmillan Company.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 08-037871

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• v • Foreword to "The King of Schnorrers" • essay by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 1 • The King of Schnorrers • novel by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 157 • The Semi-Sentimental Dragon • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 171 • An Honest Log-Roller • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 176 • A Tragi-Comedy of Creeds • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 183 • The Memory Clearing House • (1892) • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 205 • Mated by a Waiter • novelette by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 242 • The Principal Boy • (1891) • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 259 • An Odd Life • (1893) • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 273 • Cheating the Gallows • (1893) • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 297 • Santa Claus • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 302 • A Rose of the Ghetto • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 320 • A Double-Barrelled Ghost • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 334 • Vagaries of a Viscount • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 343 • The Queen's Triplets • (1892) • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 364 • A Successful Operation • short story by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]
• 369 • Flutter-Duck: A Ghetto Grotesque • novelette by Israel Zangwill [as by I. Zangwill]