• Publication: The Island of FantasyPublication Record # 718919
• Author: Fergus Hume
• Date: 1892-10-00
• Publisher: Lovell, Gestefeld & Company
• Price:
  $1.25^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 453
• Format:
  unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st US ed. (newspaper coverage implies)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover: Title leaf displays "Lovell, Gestefeld & Company", undated; copyright 1892 by United States Book Company.
  • Publication date (inferred) and price $1.25 from listing in "Books Received", NY Times 1892-10-10 p3, as the earliest hit found in US newspapers. There is a listing in "New Books Received", Phi. Inquirer -10-24, as "on sale at John Wanamaker's".
  • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports publisher Lovell, Coryell & Company and provides a link to the HathiTrust (HDL) catalog record as published "Lovell, Coryell & company [c1892]". But the one e-copy on view, from an original at Cornell University, names Lovell, Gestefeld on the title page as described above. Both Lovell, Gestefeld and Lovell, Coryell were USBC properties, and enterprises of John Wurtelle Lovell with different partners.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 07-5841
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 919986420 6259498

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• The Island of Fantasy • (1892) • novel by Fergus Hume