• Publication: Drolls from ShadowlandPublication Record # 778465
• Author: J. H. Pearce
• Date: 1893-10-00
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Price:
  $1.25^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 166
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • US edition, essentially simultaneous Printed in London
  • This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #25307 (see).
  • The UK edition was published by Lawrence & Bullen, not Macmillan and Co., but newspapers show this distributed in the US no more than two weeks later. October publication is certain, from the earliest US notice found, a review that reports it available from a local retailer, Det. Free Press 1893-10-23 p3.
  • Price from "List of New Books", The Dial 1893-11-16 p306 (received in Chicago too late for issue -11-01), as "Illus., 16mo, pp. 166, uncut."
  • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) provides full view of one copy with corduroy blue cloth cover: -- title page, New York only -- printer statement, page 166 footer:   Henderson & Spalding, Ltd., Marylebone Lane, London, W. Illustrated? This LC copy contains a single illustration, uncredited and not clearly signed, apparently mounted, three leaves prior to the title page. (Gutenberg displays it beside the title page.)
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 01-21244
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3354074
  • Open Library: OL6908533M

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• 109 • The Haunted House • (1893) • short story by J. H. Pearce
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