First published as a serial in 5 parts (two chapters per issue; including the Peter Newell illustrations, uncredited, commonly signed). Harper's Weekly vol. 43, #2224-2228; August 5 to September 2, 1899; page-span p763 (e-copy at HathiTrust; some poor images or missing pages) to p865.
Every instalment appears under the short title. All but the first begin with "Synopsis of Preceding Chapters".
Bangs was humor editor of multiple Harper magazines from 1889 to 1900 and "from 1899 to 1901 served as active editor of ''Harper's Weekly''"
-- Wikipedia
1st ed.
LCCN links e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL)
Publ date inferred from, price stated in some of:
-- advertisement of the publisher's "Recent and Forthcoming" books NY Times 1899-10-07 pBR688
-- notices "Books Received" -10-21 NY Times and The Sun (Baltimore)
-- brief reviews from 1899-10-22 SF Chronicle (longer reviews November)
HDL (catalog record) provides full view of three copies; that from U California shows:
- -- original cover
- -- Title page: no subtitle, credits Newell, states 1899
- -- Copyright page: lists Harper books by Bangs (1st eds. 1893 to 1899 per Wikipedia); (c) 1899 by the publisher
- -- Illustrations, p.v-[vi], lists 10 (some clearly signed "Peter Newell·99"; frontispiece plus 9 plates, b/w, not included in the pagination)
- -- stories span p1-171, last page unnumbered
- -- four back pages list numerous Harper book
Among three HDL copies this alone may be complete in cover and back pages.
