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Publication: New Adventures of "Alice"

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  • Publication: New Adventures of "Alice"Publication Record # 644431
  • Author: John Rae
  • Date: 1917-00-00
  • Publisher: P. F. Volland
  • Price:
    $2.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 157
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: New Adventures of "Alice" by John Rae
  • Notes:
      1st ed. Large format; 10 in (25 cm)
    • Published for the 1917 Christmas gift season, evidently October or November
    • Price $2.00 quoted in advertisements Vogue 50.11 (1917-12-01) p120 (mail order) and Chi. Tribune -12-16 pA8 ("The Fair", Chicago); here interpreted as publisher list price because the two retailers agree on what is rather high and a round number. (Publisher advertisement not found 2017-12-09 in automated search of 1917 US newspapers.)
    • Four earlier various items in US newspapers -10-22 to -11-20 give no price. The earliest is a brief review, Courier-Journal (Louisville KY) -10-22 p6 "Delectable Juveniles", as the first of two "among the early [holiday season] arrivals at this desk". -- "The illustrations include [12] full-page etchings in color and more than 100 reproductions in the style of old-fashioned wood cuts."
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover -- cover illustration signed "JOHN RAE" -- illustrated endpapers -- identically decorated title page and Foreword (Caldwell NJ, no date) incorporate cursive signature "John Rae" but those two, identically decorated Contents list and p[159] manuscript "To the Readers of this Book", and all illustrations, show the signature "JR" -- copyright page: (c) 1917 by the publisher -- story spans p11-157
    • Cover image from Amazon 2017-12-10 as "Board book – 1917"
  • External IDs:
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