• Publication: The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl: The Man Who Lost His ShadowPublication Record # 767523
• Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
• Date: 1899-00-00
• Publisher: Ginn & Company
• Pub. Series: Home and School Library
• Pages: ix+115
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes: "Translated by Frederic Henry Hedge, D.D." "Edited with introduction and notes by William R. Alger" --title page (viewed at LC) Images of one copy, complete with original cover (except spine), are available online at Library of Congress (see LCCN, below) and Internet Archive (title page). That is the "2nd copy deposited to the Library of Congress", 1899-07-20. LC display must be recommended to anyone with a fast internet connection, and screen not small, for its Gallery view of large thumbnails with long captions, "View 136 images in sequence".
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 99-3253

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• v • Introduction (The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl: The Man Who Lost His Shadow) • essay by William Rounseville Alger [as by William R. Alger]
• 1 • The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl: The Man Who Lost His Shadow • [Peter Schlemihl] • novella by Adelbert von Chamisso (trans. of Peter Schlemihl's wundersame Geschichte 1814)