• Publication: The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas StoryPublication Record # 603848
• Author: Clara F. Guernsey
• Date: 1871-00-00
• Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
• Price:
  $1.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 117
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes: 1st. ed. (published for the 1870 Christmas season, as 1871) OCLC 11566682 -- "117 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations" (uncredited) Price from publisher advertisement N-Y Tribune 1870-12-10 p6 -- as "... Figurehead", no hyphen -- "16mo. [printed on] Toned paper. Extra cloth. $1." Briefly reviewed Det. Free Press 1870-12-22 p3 Announced as "nearly ready" and briefly reviewed as "recently published", American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular 1870-10-15 and -12-01 OCLC 50917589 reports e-copy at Indiana University Digital Library Program (dlib.indiana.edu) -- interior only -- text spans p7-117 -- appended 2-page "Juvenile Publications of [JBL]" -- frontispiece and 4 plates not included in the pagination, uncredited -- frontispiece signed VIS and EBB (engraver Van Ingen & Snyder and E.B. Bensell, presumably)
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 11566682

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• The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas Story • novella by Clara F. Guernsey