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created 2020-02-19 by import from ~/rtfm section 1.2 Moon

Gutjahr "Introduction" (credited Editor of anthology where this is the only essay)

compare uncredited(?) or M.W.S., where essay closing contains "M.W.S."

compare uncredited(?) or Publisher, where essay closing is "Publisher"

compare uncredited(?) or by [name], where essay closing contains "[The] Editor"

Cosmopolitan XLIV.4 March 1908 (2 cover stories as "Is Mars Inhabited")

Leigh, illus. pp. 334* 337* 339* 341* (5 pages text by Wells facing 4 full-page illustrations by Leigh)

Wells, The Things That Live on Mars, 335-42

David Todd, Professor Todd's Own Story of the Mars Expedition, 343-49

Hector Servadac T7376 --ISFDB English only:

Ellen E. Frewer first published as 1878 Hector Servadac; or, The Career of a Comet --as YYYY, 1878, 1911(3)

Edward Roth --as 1878 (2 parts, Sun and Comet) and 1960 (slash)

?? 1926 Amazing Stories #1.1-1.2

?? 1929&c

?? 1957 Ace --abridgment of the whole as Off on a Comet

?? 2010&c --presumably the entire work as Off on a Comet

LC (844) --as Off on a Comet! #612-16

1878 CRH (2)

1976 Aeonian https://lccn.loc.gov/76025454 472 [35]

2016 CCS Books Off on a comet https://lccn.loc.gov/2017288598 51 illus Gerald McCann ISBN-1911238027

2020 Dover Off on a comet! (pt 2) https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047890 (no data, fc 2020-04)

--as Works of Jules Verne v9 U California(2) two scans of one book in UCIrvine binding t.p. v9 p.v, Contents(2); vii, Illustrations(3: front 176 272); 1-2, Introduction; Off on a Comet or Hector Servadac page 3 p150/51 (Isaac Hakkabut, Ben Zoof) page 276

277/79-394, The Underground City or The Black Indies (Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern)

[1911] V. Parke https://lccn.loc.gov/14001405 -HDL

--as Hector Servadac #457-62

French [c1936] [c1967]

Spanish [19-]

English

1877 Munro https://lccn.loc.gov/01009819 -LOC

page 1 Seaside Library / Hector Servadac. Complete in this Number. / v3 n43 / Hector Servadac: Travels and Adventures Through the Solar System

page 21 "Part Second. Chapter I. In Which is Presented, Without Ceremony the Thirty-Sixth Inhabitant of the Gallian Spheroid." "The thirty-sixth inhabitant of Gallia had at last just appeared on Hot-Land. The only words, almost incomprehensible, which he had yet uttered, were these: "It is my comet, mine! It is my comet!"

closing p39 (quote) "However, those things never happened, sir, did they?" His master could only reply: "Confound it, Ben-Zouf! What is a man to believe?"

1878 Scribner, Armstrong https://lccn.loc.gov/62056587 -HDL

Harvard no cover, Princeton presumably not original front, t.p.; t.p. verso Jules Verne's Works. The Authorized Editions. [via Hetzel and Sampson Low]

Chapters I. The Challenge [page 1 and p195 "The Astronomer. By the return of the expedition, conveying its contribution from Formentera, the known population of Gallia was raised to a total of thirty-six."

closing p370 (quote) "However, those things never happened, sir, did they?" His Master could only reply: "Confound it, Ben Zoof! What is a man to believe?"

"Works of Jules Verne" publ by Scribner ...

1903 Scribner's https://lccn.loc.gov/04017511 -HDL x, 370 t.p. as 1908 (with cover as Hector Servadac or the Career of a Comet) x, 370 ~100 illus p(1), p(195) no back pages

HDL Hector Servadac (9 records)

(19-- Dutch) 60 76

1878 Scrib,Arm Frewer --above

1882 Scribner's Frewer t.p. (with cover, title Hector Servadac or the Career of a Comet) --identical? p370, [371/72] "Standard Works of Fiction"

1895[To the sun?] McKay

1905(2) Scribner's (2 with original plain/embossed red cloth cover) t.p. verso (blank) (p[vii], List of Illustrations--only 12) (no back pages)

1906(2) Scribner's " " ; " " ; " " ; " " --both match in all 4 respects

1908 Scribner's (original cover as ... The Career of a Comet) (t.p. verso blank) (List of Illustrations, ~100) (no back pages)

1911 Works of Jules Verne, ed. Horne (4 catalog records)

U Ill #427 of 600 --dnf inside t.p. (t.p. verso matches Ind U)

HU "The Prince Edward of Wales edition"--dnf inside t.p. (cover orig?) (t.p. verso matches Ind U)

Ind U "Édition decorée."--dnf inside t.p. (IU binding) (t.p. verso distinct)

F. Tyler Daniels Company [c1911] (uncertain cover) t.p. (differs) (t.p. verso differs too) (3 illus) (no back pages)

These editions contain no distinct title page for Hector Servadac... --only that p277 for The Underground City...

2016 Fantastic Books with "Look inside" another edition

back cover "Cover illustration by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux (1846-1923) from the original serialization, engraved by Charles Laplante (1837-1903). Cover design by Ian Randall Strock"

Jules Verne space novels

aka Edward Roth translations of Jules Verne

 lw  Edward Roth 288850 (21) (11 of 21, editions of 4 Verne novels)

Sun and Comet

1197036 Sun 1878 xii 401 ; [1895?]-HDL 401

as 1879 2nd ed., w cover Amazon

1197037[4] Comet 1878 78 xii 472 ; 2020 Dover thrift --

1960 Dover thrift Space Novels o[16730277] 462; 1970 o[13368903]

as 1960 Amazon 0486206343; as 1960 Amazon (covers differ)

eBay as T634 [found at Google images only]

EN: Off on a Comet (as both parts)

-- The same year a still different translation by Edward Roth was published in Philadelphia by Claxton, Remsen, and Heffelfinger[3] in two parts. Part I (October, 1877) was entitled To the Sun and Part II (May, 1878) Off on a Comet. This was reprinted in 1895 by David McKay.

-- In 1926, the first two issues of Amazing Stories carried Off on a Comet in two parts.[5]

Sun

https://lccn.loc.gov/2011658901 -- xii, 401, [36]

McKay [1895] https://lccn.loc.gov/41042131 -LOC, HDL o[2353187] -- 401

LOC redirects to archive.org t.p. (LOC copy, pencilled "1895")

t.p. (t.p. verso blank) --original cover, reinforced

Comet

https://lccn.loc.gov/01009821 o[6905688] -- ix-xii

https://lccn.loc.gov/2011658902 -- v-xii, 472, [36] leaves of plates

That title page (c. 1895, not 1878) shows on three lines, all caps:

To the Sun?

A

Journey Through Planetary Space

Library of Congress implies that "A Journey Through Planetary Space" is from the title pages of both 1st eds. as 1878

Baldwin

Sun/Comet -- Frewer translation only [1]

Earth/Moon -- 1873 Sampson Low (London) ; 1874 Scribner, Armstrong (NY) ; 190- Allison (NY)

AND 1876 King & Baird (Catholic Publ Society) (printers King & Baird)

NEEDs work, in particular

1911 titles 1199856 2400235 2690507 may need merge, as Off on a Comet or Hector Servadac

evidently the translation is identical, but our WorldCat record as published by Vincent Parke uses title/heading Off on a Comet: The Underground City (primary Transient Holmesd without comment)

Horne 1911 "Introduction to Volume 9":

In one way “Off on a Comet” shows a marked contrast to Verne’s earlier books. Not only does it invade a region more remote than even the “Trip to the Moon,” but the author here abandons his usual scrupulously scientific attitude.

... / ... / But once granted the initial and the closing extravagance, the departure and return of his characters, the alpha and omega of his tale, how closely the author clings to facts between!"

(The Underground City) This story, like “Round the World in Eighty Days” was first issued in “feuilleton” by the noted Paris newspaper “Le Temps.”

Off on a Comet! T1197037 needs unmerge

2013 "Edited, Annotated and Illustrated by Ron Miller" is an edition of the entire novel, in the Frewer translation "expanded" (by Ron Miller?); 2020-04-15 (forthcoming) Dover Thrift is genuinely part two

EN: Off on a Comet --NEEDs work; USEFUL links

Ron Miller ebook Amazon US --is the Frewer translation revised/expanded? or the publication, by its Historical Afterword?

Earth to Moon

2515877 Baltimore 1874 442 ; 1976 442 ; 2005 xiii 259 ; 19 Dover xi 220

2515885 Around 1876 484 ; 76 --

1962 Dover Space Novels o[219889578] 470

as 1954 Amazon B00H3NXN38 as 1962\1960 Amazon B000W55M10

eBay as $1.75 T633 https://www.ebay.com/itm/From-the-Earth-to-the-Moon-Space-Novels-by-Jules-Verne-Vintage-Paperback/202812618690?hash=item2f3892f7c2:g:vwQAAOSw4O9du8k4 eBay (3 images)]

Around the World ?

Around the World (Scholastic) [1874] isbn-059043053X, 1983 isbn-0590702416, 2012 isbn-1742833071

--the latter no results at Amazon.com; the first two hit other editions, neither Scholastic, Roth, nor these ISBN

newspapers

1874 --From Earth to Moon

Catholic World 19 p. 575/76 (Jul)

1876 --Around the Moon --below as Richard Adams Locke #1876

CATHOLIC WORLD 23 p. 430 (Jun)

1877/78 ("to the sun?" verne) (21: Nov= 47; 11013202 =Aug

Catholic World 27 p. 287/88 --review

search hits 4, 7-8, 10-13, 17

The Sun (Bal) 1877-12-15 p5 "New Publications" --received, with review (as subtitle) --- "The translator, Mr. Roth, a successful educator of youth in Philadelphia, and well known formerly in Baltimore in the same vocation, has done his work well ..."

Sat Eve Post -12-01 p3 "Literary Notes" --CRH "of this city, have just put forth

publisher adverts Lit World -12-01 p133 "For Holiday Presents" "Cloth, gilt, $2.00." ; Sat Eve Post -12-22 p3 as "Sun: or, ..." "Beautifully bound in cloth, full gilt back and sides. Price, $2." ; Lit World -01-01 p153 without "or, " "Cloth, gilt, $2.00."

Independent #1539 1878-05-30 p10 "Literary News" --CRH "have nearly ready the sequel [with subtitle; Ben Zouf; brief review as for Christmas]"

American Bookseller

-11-01 p366/67 Phila. Oct 25 --CRH "have nearly ready"

-11-01 p385 "Announcements for Immediate Issue" --CRH "To the Sun; or, a Journey through Planetary Space." 36, 12mo, 410pp., $2.

-12-01 p570/71 Phila. Nov 28 --"during the last two weeks", CRH "have issued"

-12-01 p578/79 "Other New Books" --review as "Verne's latest [with subtitle] is just published ... with all the illustrations in the French edition [36]"

[2] -12-15 p620/62 "Late Holiday Books" --the Christmas number omitted some "new holiday books" espy some "of the beautiful illustrated books" --Scribner, Armstrong Hector Servadac "is the same story" 8vo 370pp nearly 100 illustrations

-04-01 p311 "New Publications" --CRH advert To the Sun? [with subtitle] as 36 illus, 12mo, clloth, $2.00

-05-15 p412 "Announcements for Immediate Issue" --CRH "Off on a Comet: A Journey through Planetary Space. A Sequel to "To the Sun." By Jules Verne. Translated by Edward Roth. 12mo, 460pp., cloth, $1.50"

-06-01 p434/36 "New Novels and Stories" --CRH "the second half of JV's To the Sun, published at Christmas time as a holiday book."

-06-15 p502 Phila. Jun 12 --"just published by" CRH, elaborate binding, 36 full-page illus

1878 ("off on a comet!") (5: --exclamation! makes no difference

The Sun (Bal) 1878-05-22 p5 "New Publications" notice

Lit World 9.1 1878-06-01 p18 "New Publications" $1.50

Lippincott's July p22 "Books Received" --with subtitles

Catholic World p576 --(no mention of this one) "We are in receipt of a number of volumes ..."; several notices held over

Moon

Imaginary Lunar Flights T760064

Gutjahr, ed., 'Voyage to the moon' and other imaginary lunar flights of fancy in antebellum America --check newspapers? Locus review?

Review by Joan Gordon, Science Fiction Studies #138 ; BL ETOCRN622127603

--q-- 2018 https://lccn.loc.gov/2018004286

---- 2018 ebook (2, EPUB and PDF) BNB GBB804557 BL 018669328 --BL Contents list is complete for Part I

Appendix A: Excerpt from Washington Irving’s A History of New York, 1809
Appendix B: Excerpts from “Anonymous Review of A Voyage to the Moon, ” reprinted from American Quarterly Review No. Contents: 5 (March 1828)
Appendix C: “Note” added for inclusion in the “Hans Pfaall” version in Poe’s collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840
Appendix D: “Richard Adam Locke” in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Literati, 1850
Appendix E: Contemporary Responses to Richard Adam Locke’s “Great Astronomical Discoveries”
Appendix F: P. T. Barnum on Locke’s “Moon Hoax” (1866).

Contents listings ASIN 1783087404 (quote the 4 anthologized works only):

Part I   Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians (1827) --no lead article, closing year; as by "Joseph Atterley (George Tucker)"

Part II   "Hans Phaall—A Tale" (June 1835)

Part III   "Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel" (August 25-30, 1835)

Part IV   "Orrin Lindsay's Plan of Aerial Navigation" (1847)

Anthem Press (3) https://lccn.loc.gov/n2007085651 https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2007-085651

• as "Joseph Atterley (George Tucker)" -- [NEED comma, no lead article]

[A] Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians (1827)

• Edgar A. Poe -- Hans Phaall—A Tale (original title and credit)

Southern Literary Messenger 1835-

• Richard Adams Locke -- Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel (short title from 2018 TOC)

The Sun (New York) 1835-08

• J. L. Riddell -- Orrin Lindsay's Plan of Aerial Navigation (short title from 2018 TOC)

els  Joseph Atterley, pseud. = George Tucker 1986 (30) 
els  Richard Adams Locke 2021 (11) --uncredited 1835
els  J. L. Riddell 132433 (12)
 lw  Paul C. Gutjahr, ed. 307576 (9) -- 2018 Introduction --uncredited?

Gutjahr

search online title data

add library records

describe Appendix A to F (related works and responses to A Voyage, Great Astro)

Poe

The Story of the Sun, New Edition (1928), p. 56

Locke had spoiled a promising tale for Poe--who tore up the second installment of Hans Pfaall when he "found that he could add very little to the minute and authentic account of Sir John Herschel"--but the poet took pleasure, in later years, in picking the Sun's moon story to bits.

"That the public were misled, even for an instant," Poe declared in his critical essay on Locke's writings, "merely proves the gross ignorance which, ten or twelve years ago, was so prevalent on astronomical topics."

Tucker

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Tucker (as Atterley), A Voyage to the Moon T21116 Fo[3](45)

LOH. 1827 Bliss https://lccn.loc.gov/03002392 -HDL iv 264

t.p. (Elam Bliss copyright entry) -iv, [5]-11, [13]-264

Om$ 1975 [c1827] Gregg https://lccn.loc.gov/75005843 ix 294 --new pref David Hartwell

d$ 2003 Gutenberg --NEEDs work #10005 title page "By George Tucker (Joseph Atterley)" --PV DES

concludes with Appendix: Anonymous Review (1828-03), not hyperlinked, whose 11 footnotes are represented as endnotes under the heading "[Appendix Footnotes]"

[above] 2018 contents "Joseph Atterley (George Tucker)" // 3-line poem // 1827 // Contents [list]

"Appeal to the Public", closing "Joseph Atterley." over "Long-Island, September, 1827."

Riddell

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J. L. Riddell [orig. Orrin Lindsay] T2688411 Fo[12] ✓

ISFDB

1847 New Orleans

1847 Louisville

[above] 2018 ed. Gutjahr

1847 New Orleans; 009608511 (micro)

1847-04-30 lecture: New Orleans printing; Louisville printing at HDL t.p. "edited by J. L. Riddell, M. D." ; Correspondence, New Orleans 1847-05-04, 08, interior title "Account of a A New Mode of Aerial Navigation, Embracing a Narrative of a Voyage to the Moon. By Orrin Lindsay. // Read Before the People's Lyceum of New Orleans, April 30, 1847. By J. L. Riddell." ; p[5]-24

1st ed. (New Orleans), revise story/publ title and author name

BPL https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1384519075 (Temporarily unavailable)

Riddell

• 1847 Louisville P760400

t.p. Louisville pamphlet

• 1847 New Orleans pamphlet(?) P309459

https://lccn.loc.gov/22006966 22-6966 / 3144579 "stored in business envelope"

The chapbook title --above, fashioned with two commas, exclamation mark, and no colon-- matches the title page of the 1847 Louisville, Kentucky, pamphlet. (see) It also matches the title/heading of WorldCat library record OCLC 23784904 alone, where other WorldCat records (and Bleiler probably) fashion the title with a colon and no commas or one; and some omit the exclamation mark.

The novelette title and credit (below) match the chapbook title and credit, and thus the Louisville title page. The 24-page Louisville pamphlet contains the lecture text under a heading whose title and credit both differ from the title page.

904539359 991351722 • "Orrin Lindsay is a fictional former student." • "Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society." contents • Account of a new mode of aerial navigation, embracing a narrative of a voyage to the moon by Orrin Lindsay, read before the People's Lyceum of New Orleans, April 30th, 1847 / by J.L. Riddell -- • Brief account of some novel experiments upon gravitation and also a narrative of two voyages into empty space / by Orrin Lindsay, A.M.

Richard Adams Locke

(Celebrated) Moon Story, (Great) Moon Hoax

The Story of the Sun

The Sun and/& the Moon, Matthew Goodman, Basic Books, 2008, ISBN- 176894745 o[4]

H-Net review

Wikipedia EN: Great Moon Hoax

Hoaxes.org Moon Hoax Trivia (deep in that article)

The text of Locke's lunar narrative was translated into many languages, including French, German, Italian, and Welsh. There was even a shorthand version of it, published in 1886.

(image) Welsh title page

Great Moon Hoax Stock Photos and Images (Alamy.com) [5]

British Library as "[1858?]" --that one

> 2011, Hoaxes.org [6]

2013, Smithsonian Unbound (si.edu) [7]

2016, BoweryBoysHistory.com [8] --"that one" is labeled "A 1838 print by the Thierry Brothers"

2019, EarthSky.org [9]

els  Richard Adams Locke 2021 (11) https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86-862119/
(Wikipedia link is "Great Moon Hoax")

2020-02-15 User talk:Rtrace#The Moon Hoax

WorldCat oOCLC 774995 displays this heading/title for the second 1835 chapbook (quote):

Great astronomical discoveries lately made by Sir John Herschel, L.L.D.F.R.S. &c. at the Cape of Good Hope.

But that record notes, "Publication information from Story of the Sun."

Great Astronomical Discoveries ... (novelette) T2030058 --check 1835, 1852 newspapers

ISFDB

pre-1900 publications (2020-02-20)

[1835-08 The Sun] --6 daily, now as Tue-08-25 to Sun-08-30 --NEED Mon-08-31

LO. 1835 Sun Office, "A Complete Account ..." 11p

O. 1835 ----, "Great Astronomical Discoveries ..." 28p

B. 1836 Effingham Wilson

BLH. 1852 Bunnell and Price

OI. 1859 William Gowans

-F. 1876 omni All Around the Moon (Baldwin LHCL) https://lccn.loc.gov/01009775

20th/21st century (5) --see below #20th century

SFE3

Picture Gallery (3 title pages) --NEED dates revised from 26-31 August to 25-29 and 31

1835 coll pb ; Sun Office (reprint of 1835-08 Sun serial)

Day Five, Saturday -08-29 text contains "See plate 4." (viewed at Hoaxes.org, which provides no images of original illustrations)

1835 coll pb ; Sun Office (" ")

1836 vt pb ;

1841 "[chap: rev of the above: pb/]"

1859 "[chap: vt of the above: possibly revised: pb/nonpictorial]"

1975 "[anth: facsimile reprint of the above with added material and introduction Ormond Seavey: hb/]"

and

1852 "[anth: contains original text plus additional material: compiled by William N Griggs: hb/]" The Celebrated "Moon Story"

British Library search 2020-02-19

Bunnell and Price --found; William N. Griggs --no other found

Richard Adams Locke [orig. uncredited]

n.d. [1835?] 012814858

1836 002208299 --London P761770

1836 German 002208300 --its translation

1852 002208302 016996608 --adds nothing

[1858?] Welsh 002208301 --abridged and transl.

1859 002208303 016996609 --adds nothing

HOLLIS

2 Fr, 1 De translation --one Fr on shelf at Astr 8558.36.3

1852, Old Widener[BE] Astr 8558.52 ; 143

1859, Old Widener[BE] Astr 8558.59 ; 63

HOUGHTON SF-1540 (paper covers, permission required)

1975, WLC[2E] PS2248.L835 M6 x, 1975 ; ISBN-0839823088 xxxvi, 74

1974/1966 Moskowitz anth WLC[1W] PN6071.S33 .M67x 1974 ; x, 552

2017 Sims anthology FARNSWORTH PR1309.S3 F73 2017 ; 387

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WorldCat, translations

German

10 as 1836, 2017 Fo[10](only 5)

French language Fo[11](11)

1835 Paris

1836 Paris; Lausanne, Strasbourg, Turin

Spanish

1 as 1835 o[19294841]

Italian

2+5 as 1836 Fo[12] Fo[13]

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WorldCat: Hanes y Lleuad (4 records, 2 redundant) --all as abridged version of "Some Account", which is the UK edition--

[1840?] o[14]

[1858?] o[15]

Google translate

• Llanrwst: Argraffwyd gan John Jones => Llanrwst: Printed by John Jones
• wedi ei awdurdodi gan Lygad-dyst => authorized by an Eye-witness
• Hanes y Lleuad ; yn gosod allan y rhyfeddodau a ddarganfyddwyd gan Syr John Herschel, trwy gynnorthwy gwdyr-ddrych, etc

History of the Moon; sets out the wonders discovered by Sir John Herschel, with the aid of a mirror-mirror, etc.

• Hanes y lleuad : yn gosod allan y rhyfeddodau a ddarganfyddwyd gan Syr John Herschel trwy gynnorthwy gwydr-ddrych, yr hwn a bwysa saith dunell, yn mwyhau y gwrthrych i 42,000 o weithiau, a'i galluogai i ganfod yn y lleuad, creigiau, coed, blodau, gwastadtiroedd ...

History of the moon: sets out the wonders discovered by Sir John Herschel with the aid of a glass mirror, which weighs seven tons, enlarged the object to 42,000 times, which enabled it to be found in the moon, rocks, trees , flowers, plains ...

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1835-08-21 notice --from Hoaxes.org

[page 2] The New York Sun.

Friday Morning, August 21, 1835.

Office of Sun removed to the corner of Nassau and Spruce streets, opposite the City Hall.

Celestial discoveries.--The Edinburgh Courant says--"We have just learnt from an eminent publisher in this city [Edinburgh] that Sir John Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope, has made some astronomical discoveries of the most wonderful description, by means of an immense telescope of an entirely new principle."

[Day 1, page 2]

We this morning commence the publication of a series of extracts from the new Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science, which have been very politely furnished us by a medical gentleman immediately from Scotland, in consequence of a paragraph which appeared on Friday last from the Edinburgh Courant. The portion which we publish to day is introductory to celestial discoveries of higher and more universal interest than any, in any science yet known to the human race.

September

"Nevertheless, the Sun did make a large profit from the moon hoax. It did so by selling the complete text of the lunar discoveries as a special-edition pamphlet that it put on sale on August 31 for one shilling. It also sold various lithographic prints showing fanciful scenes of Herschel's lunar discoveries, such as the lunar animals and the Ruby Colosseum. It commissioned the production of these prints from the Wall Street lithographers Norris & Baker.

The Sun never shared sales figures for the pamphlet and prints, but according to William Gowans, writing in 1859, it sold 60,000 pamphlets in less than a month. This would have been a huge financial windfall for the paper. These pamphlets are now collector's items. Only sixteen of them are known to still exist, and they sell for as much as $2000 each.

16 September

"Certain correspondents have been urging us to come out and confess the whole to be a hoax; but this we can by no means do, until we have the testimony of the English or Scotch papers to corroborate such a declaration." (NY Sun, Sep. 16, 1835)

22 September

Hoaxes.org captions to incorporated images

• Lunar scene published in the Sun, September 1835
• Vespertilio-Homo, from an Italian edition of the moon hoax
• Moon hoax scene, created by artist Don Davis for Sky and Telescope magazine (1981)
• Thomas Dick, the 'Christian Philosopher'
• Rev. Timothy Dwight
• Herschel's twenty-foot reflector in Feldhausen, South Africa. Lithograph by G.H. Ford.
• Lunar scene, from a Welsh edition of the moon hoax
• Lewis Gaylord Clark
• Sir John Herschel
• Left: Shorthand edition of the moon hoax. Right: Welsh edition of the moon hoax.

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early? and unknowable?

n.d. o[16] -- R. J. Brown, "The Great Moon Hoax of 1835" provided online by the Newspaper Collectors Society of America -- Archive.org version

1852 o[17]

1876 o[18] --Verne All Around the Moon; appendix Locke The Moon Hoax

1878515349

1835 chap as "Complete", revise as uncredited (two titles)

1835 chap as "Great" revise as uncredited (two titles)

1835 serial The Sun (New York), part one P634550 --NEED full title, "uncredited", $.01, 4 pages

Momentarily I write to contributors Rtrace and Chris J concerning sources for 1835 INTERIORART title, 1852 publication record (which is entirely silent on sources), and 1859 publication record (whose sources may be the sources for purported 1852 works/publications, even 1835). User talk:Rtrace#The Moon Hoax User talk:Chris J#The Moon Hoax

note to self) Headline throughout the week (so fashioned at Hoaxes.org "The Great Moon Hoax") http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_great_moon_hoax/ GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES LATELY MADE BY SIR JOHN HERSCHEL, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. At the Cape of Good Hope [From Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science]

Locke (uncredited)

1. Among LCCN and all WorldCat library records as 1835, OCLC 318384209 alone reports the subtitle (SFE3 does not; presumably from Bleiler and perhaps Reginald).

2. All library records and SFE3 concur "in" and "to".

later check newspapers; consult User:Rtrace on Bleiler &c

HathiTrust

1835-b P578466

[1835 New York] Great Astronomical Discoveries

U Mich

cover/t.p. [1] "... Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. at the Cape of Good Hope" [horizontal line] "[First published in the New-York Sun, from the Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal of Science.]"

3, The Younger Herschel's Telescope

mid-10, New Lunar Discoveries

footer 28, "[This concludes the Supplement, with the exception of forty pages of illustrative and mathematical Notes, which would greatly enhance the size and price of this work, without commensurably adding to its general interest.--Ed. Sun.]"

1836 P761770

1836 London U Cal 85p

t.p. "Some Account of the GADLMBSJ Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope"

(2nd leaf) Advertisement

• "The reader should be apprised that the matter contained in the following pages, was arranged for publication in a scientific journal about to be established; but that an unforeseen delay having occurred in the appearance of the first number, it has been thought right to publish it separately."

[1]ff as "Astronomical Discoveries"

• "It is impossible to contemplate any great Astronomical discovery without feelings closely allied to a sensation of awe, and nearly akin to those with which a departed spirit may be supposed to discover the unknown realities of a future state."

5-28, The Younger Herschel's Telescope

28-85, New Lunar Discoveries p84-85

1852

1852 Bunnell and Price P211213, 143p two copies

(U Cal, original cover likely) t.p. U Cal entered 1852 William N. Griggs

[3]-18, I. Origins --p[3] The "MOON STORY," Its Origin, Incidents, &c.

19-40, II. Incidents

40-45, III. Memoir of the Author

p(47) half-title Great Astronomical Discoveries [matches the newspaper], uncredited; [49]-53, 53-71, 71-116 --35 leaves total

Appendix

[117]-41, I. Authentic Description of the Moon

141-43, II. New Theory of the Lunar Surface in Relation to That of Earth

William N. Griggs [1 work] https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-305986301/

https://lccn.loc.gov/07014295 --LC makes him editor Griggs may be unknown to national libraries.

SUDOC: 17493596X

Source

The Celebrated Moon Story : Its Origin and Incidents / by William N. Griggs, [2012]

174930569 : The Celebrated Moon Story : Its Origin and Incidents / by William N. Griggs / [Whitefish, Mont.] : Kessinger Pub. , [2012]

The [not celebrated] "Moon Story," Its Origin, Incidents, &c. --as editor, this his introduction to the "Moon Story"

[3]-18, Chapter I. Its Origin

19-40, Chapter II. Its Incidents

40-45, Memoir of the Author

47\49 "Great Astronomical Discoveries ... [First published in the New York Sun {no hyphen} ..."

• "In this unusual addition to our [Edinburgh] journal, we have the happiness of making known to the British public, and thence to the whole civilized world, recent discoveries in astronomy which will build an imperishable monument to the age in which we live, and confer upon the present generation of the human race a proud distinction through all future time. It has been poetically said that "the stars of heaven are the hereditary regalia of man," as the intellectual sovereign of the animal creation. He may now fold the zodiac around him with a loftier consciousnness of his mental supremacy."

[117]-41, Appendix I. An Authentic Description of the Moon.

141-43, Appendix II. A New Theory of the Lunar Surface in Relation to That of the Earth. p140/41

1859

1859 W. Gowans P211217, vi 63 two copies

U Cal

front cover M. Doolady (no date); frontispiece The Moon; t.p. William Gowans 1859 entered 1859 William Gowans, [v]-vi, (corrupt postnominals) [7]-50, Appendix [51]-63 (also uncredited); [65]; 100,000 books, images 71-72 [67-68]; Catalogue images 73-84 [69-80] --iamges 80-84 being "Remainders of Editions by Other Publishers"

Appendix, 60-63 (from [mid-p60) "Opinions of the American Press Respecting the Foregoing Discovery" --perhaps a reprint from The Sun -1835-09-01 as "Herschel's Great Discoveries"

1859 chapbook bound with The Story of the Sun (part 2 of ?)

#The Story of the Sun

1876

All Round the Moon by "Jules Verne freely translated by Edward Roth" P705208

[CONTENTS] (U Florida, image 9)

APPENDIX:

The Moon Hoax, by R. Adams Locke, . 431

431 --credits Locke by full name

433 --states "LL. D., F.R.S., &c.," (the original with three commas inserted) --headings include final dots. --begins "In this unusual addition to our Journal, ... [the British edition]

436-mid, The Younger Herschel's Telescope

running heads "The Moon Hoax." and "Astronomical Discoveries."

450-mid, New Lunar Discoveries

484 --concludes with the original bracketed editorial note, as in closing "—Ed. Sun.]" --CHECK closing omitted from the 1836 British edition

No illustrations.

Ath 1876-07-08 p47 --Our Library Table lists this among many books not reviewed (following the few reviews: "We have on our table [long list]")

The CATHOLIC WORLD. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science. ("New York: The Catholic Publication House / 9 Warren Street.") v23 n3 p430 (June 1876) view at HathiTrust

All around the Moon [long header]

It is not often the case that translations are, like the present one, an improvement on the original, especially when the original work is such an admirable one as that from which this translation is made. We noticed the first part, published under the title of The Baltimore Gun Club, some time ago, favorably, and have been even more pleased with this sequel.

Mr. Roth calls the book a free translation, but this term hardly conveys the idea of the adaptation which he has really made of the text. Verne certainly intended, when he laid the scene in America, to make the characters, incidents, and conversation thoroughly American, and he succeeded as well as could have been expected; but the task was one simply impossible for a foreigner, and any translation at all approaching to literal exactness, no matter by whom made, would have been sure to have shared the defects of the text. Mr. Roth, therefore, to carry out the author's idea, had practically to rewrite the book in such a way as to preserve the genius of the conception while altering the details in a way which required an ability like that of the author himself.

Besides having made the book really an American one, he has added to its scientific merit by a fuller explanation of the problem which is the nucleus of the story.

The "Moon Hoax," which is appended, was probably the most successful and best contrived of all the scientific canards which have ever appeared. It was written more than forty years ago, but its memory has not yet died out, and it was so cleverly done as to be well worthy of this reprint.

The book is illustrated by twenty-four cuts, besides the map of the moon mentioned in the title. It would really have been better without the rather clap-trap additional [sic] about the Centennial at its close, but this makes it all the more American, and may be excusable under the circumstances.

("baltimore gun club") 16 : 754

The Sun (Baltimore) 1874-06-30 p2 "The Baltimore Gun Club" (no price)

(middle of the one long paragraph) "... The translator of this, Mr. Edward Roth, formerly resided in Baltimore, and is distinguished as a successful educator of youth. He does not profess to give a literal translation, but takes some liberties not affecting its inherent merit, but making it more attractive and familiar to American readers. The author begins by referring to the proficiency of the Americans in gunnery in the late civil war, says that a club was started, (in Baltimore,) every member of which was required to have invented, or at least improved, a cannon, or if not a cannon, a firearm of some kind."

Lit World 5.2 1874-07-01 p27 "Minor Book Notices" [p28] quoting Roth "In this volume," says the translator, Edward Roth, "the reader has Jules Verne done into real English, corrected, edited, annotated, revised--improved."

Catholic World 19.111 p575/76

The Sun 1875-06-01 p2 Classified Ads > Amusements : "Pigeon Shooting--For a fine Bay Horse at the Baltimore Gun Club Grounds, Thursday, June 3, at 1 o'clock. [] Admission twenty-five cents, except to those holding chances. [flushright] M. Adams."

-08-12 p2 [same] "Pigeon Shooting--At the Baltimore Gun Club Park, on this Thursday Afternoon, for a fine Greener Gun. [flushright] Michael Adams, Proprietor."

-08-26 p2 [same] Thursday at 3, "for a fine Breech-Loading Gun."

-09-11 p2 [same] "for a fine Breech-Loading Gun, at 2 o'clock ..."

20th century

ISFDB publications (5)

1926-09 issue of Amazing Stories

Om$ 1975-06 Gregg Press P211221

ISFDB "Photographic reprint of the 1859 William Gowans edition."

SFE3 "[anth: facsimile reprint of the above with added material and introduction Ormond Seavey: hb/]"

Od$i 2011-07-01 anth Journeys to the Moon --ed. Godwin; with Poe

2017-03-08 German Neueste Berichte

2018-03-00 [hc]anth Voyage to the Moon --ed. Gutjahr; with Tucker, Poe, Riddell (see top of this page) --q

--nidb--

1910 o[19] --Bram Stoker, Famous Impostors

1935 o[20] --James Stickley, 100th

1973 children's picture book, ISBN-0663254965 ABEbooks Amazon US

https://lccn.loc.gov/72077627 16p ; "Reading 360."; Series . A Magic circle book Fo[21]

[unfortunately] Synopsis

Details the actual episode in 1835 in which a New York editor made up some imaginative stories about life on the moon to increase his newspaper's sale.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

1974 Cheshire ISBN-0701519010 "illus Richard E. Brown" Amazon UK

Franklyn M. Branley 6498 (179) https://lccn.loc.gov/n79017952 https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-017952

c1990 Moon Walk 1835: Was Neil Armstrong ...? ISBN-1878515349 ed. Tazewell https://lccn.loc.gov/90081467 o[22] 80p

2010 tp Forgotten Books --"a facsimile reprint"

2015 e Kindle

2016 hc Facsimile --names Nicollet co-author

2018 hc Forgotten Books --"Excerpt from ..."

The Story of the Sun

Wikipedia EN: The Sun (New York City) --NEEDs work

Frank [M., Michael] O'Brien 156365 --niLC https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-92303848/ 
now as "Frank O'Brien"

FictionMags lists our 1914 story as by "Frank M. O'Brien", which is expected from library records of O'Brien book publications.

HDL (Argosy) All story, as from 1882 --holdings some of 1890-1900; 1917;, 1891-1912 and 1919-22 --none of 1914

Rtrace: Is the Index to FSF in Munsey T1252181 reliable concerning credited author names?

MITSFS: in long-term storage [23]

WorldCat records of publications by Frank M. O'Brien suggest that he was a New York City-based journalist who wrote little fiction. The FictionMags Index lists about 20 short stories published in magazines, however; try web search

google https://www.google.com/search?q=%22o%27brien%2C+frank+m%22+fictionmags&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab

els  Frank A. Munsey 232536 (11)
Frank A. Munsey & Co. (6) https://lccn.loc.gov/no2006070768
Munsey's Magazine

The Story of the Sun, serial, Munsey's Magazine 1917-1918

v60, I. page 583 (1917-05)

v61, II--V (1917-06/09) pp 99, 279, 524, 709; Locke's Hoax, #61.1, June 1917, pp. 99-115

v62, VI--IX (1917-10 to 1918-01)

v63, X--XII (1918-02/04)

P350209 Munsey's 61.1 June 1917 --is it permitted to add an ESSAY published in a non-genre magazine?

pp. 99-115, Munsey's Magazine (as part 2 of a series)

EDITORIAL NOTE--This is the second ...

100, The Author of the Moon Hoax

101, Preparing the Way for the Hoax [#1]

[and the first instalment with newsp headlings as ", LL.D., F.R.S., &c."]

102, Something New in Telescopy

"An editorial article ..."

103, The Second Instalment of the Hoax [#2]

"... an editorial paragraph assured the patrons of the paper ..."

104, The Reception of the Hoax

Bennett of the Herald advertises here

105, A Third Budge of Lunar Marvels [#3]

105, The First Sight of the Man-Bats [#4]

(106) "The editor of the supplement ... added ..."; clamor for pictures ... forthcoming (25c for the set) alongside the pamphlet edition (12 or 13c)

107, The Wondrous Temple of the Moon [#5, #6; 11000 words]

"An editorial note added: ..."

108, Baffled Truth-Seekers from Yale [and Caleb Weeks information to Herschel]

109, How the Secret Leaked Out

110, The Moon Hoax on the Stage ; Poe and Locke--A Curious Parallel

112, Earlier Suggestions of the Story

113, De Morgan's Notes on Nicollet ; The Career of Jean Nicollet

115, French Comments on the Moon Hoax

"(To be continued in the July number of Munsey's Magazine)"

Doran, The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918 https://lccn.loc.gov/18020662 -HDL xx 455

t.p. UMich --cFrank A. Munsey 1917, 1918-- vii-xi, xiii-xx (ch I-XIX, ill), p21-454;

vii-xi, An Introduction / By the Editor of The Sun ; Edward P. Mitchell

xiii, Contents : I-XIX -433] ; Bibliography, Chronology, Index [435-55]

IX. The Earlier Career of Dana
X. Dana: His "Sun" and Its City
XI. Dana, as Mitchell Saw Him
XII. Dana's First Big News Men
XIII. Dana's Famous Rivals Pass
XIV. "The Sun" and the Grant Scandals
XV. "The Sun and "Human Interest"
XVI. "Sun" Reporters and Their Work
XVII. Some Genius in an Old Room
XVIII. The Finest Side of  "The Sun"
XIX. "The Sun" and Yellow Journalism (includes "Dana's Death", Dana's Successors)

ch III, 64-102, "Richard Adams Locke's Moon Hoax" / A Magnificent Fake Which Deceived Two Continents, Brought to "The Sun" the Largest Circulation in the World and, in Poe's Opinion, Established the Penny Papers.

f68, (image) Richard Adams Locke, Author of the Moon Hoax

f96, (images) The First Instalment of the Moon Hoax

f96, (2nd of 2) A Moon Scene, from Locke's Great Deception [source?]

1828

revised? --or extended?

Appleton, New Edition, The Story of the Sun: New York: 1833-1928 https://lccn.loc.gov/68057634 https://lccn.loc.gov/28002925 -HDL o[335141]

t.p. UMich

vii, Preface to the New Edition ; Frank M. O'Brien / New York

ix-xiii, Introduction to the First Edition ; Edward P. Mitchell / New York, 1918

xv, Contents : I-XVII [1-273] ; Index [275-305] (no back pages)

xvii-xviii, Illustrations

IX. The Reign of Dana
X. "The Sun" and "Human Interest"
XI. Dana and Politics
XII. Dana's Successors --
 (ch 9-12 = pp 148-200)
XIII. Frank A. Munsey [1916-1925]
XIV. William T. Dewart Buys "The Sun"
XV. The Editorial Page
XVI. The News Department
XVII. Some "Sun" Stories
XII. Dana's Successors

ch III "Richard Adams Locke's Moon Hoax", 37-57 page 38 (3 images --low quality)

Amazon

newspapers

("moon hoax") 1835--1838 (26: 4 9 5 8)

("moon story") " " (11: 3 5 2 1)

("richard adams locke") " " (4: 0 0 3 1)

("richard a. locke") " " (0)

("r. a. locke") " " (4: 0 0 1 3)

("astronomical discoveries" herschel) (14: 8 3 3 0)

(one unique from the following) New York Evangelist 6.35 1835-08-29 p229 "Wonderful Astronomical Discoveries"; much account of instalments 25/26/27, and more. "We have no time nor room for more this week. The whole will be published in a pamphlet on Monday, at the Sun office, corner of Spruce and Nassau streets."

("great astronomical discoveries") (10: 7(Sep) 3)

[24] Observer 1836-05-15 p1 "To be published on Tuesday next, price 2s. ...

also Macrone "on the even of publication" TheMagician, and Rookwood 4th ed.

Ath #450 1836-06-11 p415 "Our Library Table" --capsule; as "The Great ... J. Herschel at the Cape ...", closing "In this point of view the little brochure was perhaps worth republication in this country."

1852

("celebrated moon story") 1

[25] N-Y Daily Tribune 1852-11-02 p3 "New Publications" (no price)

("william n. griggs") no hit! --but he is named in NYDT -11-02 (griggs bunnell price) 1 = (william griggs moon) 1

[26] Lou Daily Journal -12-04 p4 "The Great Moon Hoax"

("moon story") 4 Nov/Dec

identical to Lou -12-04 The Albion 11.47 1852-11-20 p554/55

[27] N-Y Daily Times -11-26 p6 --as both Moon Hoax and Moon-Story

(bunnell moon) 5

"Now Ready ..." 2nd of 4 entire: "Also, THE GREAT MOON HOAX, formerly publsihed by the New-York Sun. By R. Adams Locke. Price 371/2 cents--cloth."

1859

("moon hoax") 44 (10000 6; 824(13)7 2)

(Jun/Jul multiple classified ads) [28] forthcoming Saturday -07-02 "The Illuminated Quadruple Constellation" George Roberts "Mastodon newspaper" --the largest ever, 50c, containing eomplete reprint of The Moon Hoax

(Sep) fc Sep 8(?) 50c "W. Gowans, No. 85 Centre-st."

NYDT -09-08 p1 Classified "MOON-HOAX. By Locke. A beautiful new edition of this remarkable book published THIS MORNING. Price 50 cents."

NYDT -09-27 p1, -10-17 p1 --both as "Just published."

• LCCN https://lccn.loc.gov/sn86077182/
• o[29] as 8 pp ; o[14036816] o[78873529] --meagre
• Duke U Libraries [30]
• Library of Congress Magazine [31]
• Frederic Hudson, Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872 (Harper, 1873) [32]

CANADA

(Oct) The Gazette (Montreal) --advert by one circulating library and book store from -10-23 p3

UK

[33] The Critic 19.486 -10-29 416/18 "A Yankee Hoax" --major review/excerpts

[34] Macmillan's Magazine v1 -11-01 218-224 "Scientific Hoaxes" closing "A. De. M." --on the occasion of US reprint-- ... p221b "At the time of the perpetration, the hoax was attributed to the late M. Nicollet; and a recent edition of Gorton's Dictionary makes this attribution in positive terms. ..."; 221/222 "With the reprint are given contemporary testimonies of American journals. ... Unlesss the appendix be another hoax, the imposition was first palmed upon a newspaper, which it deceived, and many others after it. ..."

Ath -12-03 p739 Gowans reprint, capsule: "... authorship was attributed to M. Nicollet. We never heard of R. A. Locke in connexion with it. In the present reprint the attestations of the American journals to the truth of the discoveries are given." ;