• Publication: A Phantom Lover: A Fantastic StoryPublication Record # 708904
• Author: Vernon Lee
• Date: 1886-09-15
• Publisher: Roberts Brothers
• Price:
  $0.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 134
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • 1st US ed. of the chapbook or the story, apparently
  • Publication date from coverage of the publisher in "Boston Announcements", American Bookseller 20.6 (1886-09-15) p193-?: "On the 15th of September they published ... [5 listings, one as 9 vols]."
  • Flexible cover, size 16mo, and price 50c from the same magazine issue, p202, "Roberts Brothers' Autumn List, 1886" (typography modified):   "16mo. Limp cloth. Uniform with A Little Pilgrim. Price 50 cents." Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) reports size 18 cm, at the high end of expectations for stated 16mo (sextodecimo). Library of Congress reports size 16 cm for the 1882 Roberts Brothers ed. of A Little Pilgrim, LCCN 07032606.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 3 copies, 2 with original cover. From the U California copy: -- front cover, crimson lettering on light blue cloth - title page displays subtitle; no subtitle above the text, p3 -- (dedication), pp. 1 and ii, "To Count Peter Boutourline, [etc]"; closes "Vernon Lee", no date -- A Phantom Lover, pp. [3]-190; no back pages The first segment of the novel is not numbered (p3). The second and subsequent segments are numbered I. to IX. (Contrast Project Gutenberg Ebook #8180 and #9956, from unknown source text, wherein the ten segments are numbered 1 to 10, arabic.)
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 07-3529
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 2399390

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• A Phantom Lover • (1886) • novella by Vernon Lee