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Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy

Margaret Horton Potter

First published 1902
Publisher Harper & Brothers
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Pages xvi+494
Price $1.50

Described and analyzed in "Classics of Fantastic Literature", by Robert Reginald & Robert Menville, and in "Assyriology and English Literature" by Benjamin Foster, an essay in "From the banks of the Euphrates" by Alice Louise Slotsky & Micah Ross.

  • 1st ed., New York and London This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #38710 (see).
  • Publication date from title page. US price $1.50 is confirmed by listing in The Dial 1902-09-16 p170ff, "Announcement of Fall Books" (not yet out). Publication during the calendar month is confirmed by a discursive publisher advertisement "New Books News", NY Times -09-27 pBR13, as "published to-day" (Saturday). Same day listing in "Books published this week", Chi. Tribune, with long review p19.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of two copies with original cover: -- title page: "New York and London 1902" -- t.p. verso: "Published September, 1902." Roman numbered pages v-xvi span the Contents, Preface, Libri Personae, and the verse "Prologue: The Incarnation". Implied pagination as i-xvi and 1-494 covers all printed leaves.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy Cover 1978 Arno Press Hardcover Novel xvi+494
Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy 2012 Project Gutenberg eBook Novel 38710