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Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

Ralph Adams Cram

First published 1896
Publisher Chatto & Windus
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 151
Price 1/6

  • 1st UK ed.
  • Publication date, series, and price from listings in "Chatto & Windus's New Novels", February/March 1896, as "Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d." with annotations "[Shortly." (1896-02-08), "[March 12." (-03-07), and none (-03-11, -03-21). The latter panel, The Athenaeum #3569 1896-03-21 p391, lists this and one other book under heading (quote):   NEW "HANDY NOVELS."--Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d. each.
  • Last page unnumbered (inferred) --libraries report both US and UK eds. as 150 pages; see US pp. 150/151 (viewed at HathiTrust). Page numbers from the 1895 US ed. with identical page count.
  • As of August 2019, seven WorldCat library records report series "Handy Novels", including four as Chatto & Windus 1892 to 1896.
  • Tuck probably reports the short title only, as 160 pages.

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories 1896 Chatto & Windus Hardcover Collection 151
Black Spirits and White Cover 1993 Necronomicon Press Pamphlet Collection 43
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories Cover 2004 Tartarus Press Hardcover Collection xxi+145
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories 2008 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 26687
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories Cover 2009 The Echo Library Trade Paperback Collection 60
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories Cover 2009 Dodo Press Trade Paperback Collection 84
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories Cover 2014 The Midnight Press Trade Paperback Collection 104