• Publication: A House-Boat on the StyxPublication Record # 583090
• Author: John Kendrick Bangs
• Date: 1900-00-00
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers
• Price:
  $0.75^?$: US dollar
• Pages: viii+xi+171+[25]
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: New edition. Verified from library copy with original red cloth cover, black and gold stamped design; lacks dustjacket, if any.

  • Back pages include promotion of "Harper's Popular 12mo Series // Cloth, Ornamental, 75 Cents Each // With Frontispiece Portraits of Authors"; this is the first of about 20 volumes listed
  • Title page shows short title orange-red, no subtitle; states 1900
  • "Copyright (c) 1895, 1899, by Harper & Brothers."
  • 25 plates: frontispiece photo portrait of Bangs; 24 b/w illustrations clearly signed (uncredited), not included in the pagination
  • "Introductory Sketch" follows the first p.viii (which matches the 1st ed. p.viii); spans new sequence p.[iii]-xi; includes autograph signature of JKB over "Yonkers, N.Y., August 20, 1899"

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• Introduction (A House-Boat on the Styx) • essay by John Kendrick Bangs
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