• Publication: The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's TalePublication Record # 707361
• Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Date: 1889-09-00
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Price:
  $0.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: viii+331
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • US ed., paper cover, unillustrated 1st ed. of the novel as a book, simultaneous with others or nearly so (The serial concluded in Scribner's Magazine for October, published in London as well as New York during the last week of September.)
  • "Author's Edition" (Not found at Library of Congress.) Some newspaper coverage, some library records, and some online copies, show that the "Author's Edition" comprehends both hardcover and paper cover eds./formats.
  • Publication date (inferred) and price from newspapers: • "Books Received", NY Times 1889-09-23 p2 (illustrated, cloth) • "First Edition Exhausted Before Publication"; "Author's Edition" (advertisement of this book alone), Chi. Tribune 1889-09-28 p13: "With ten full-page Illustrations by William Hole. 12mo., cloth., $1.25; paper (without Illustrations), 50 cents." The latter listing appears also in a monthly magazine with the same publication date, The Literary World (Boston).
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 7979230

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• The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale • (1889) • novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Master of Ballantrae)