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The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies

I. Zangwill

First published 1894
Publisher Macmillan and Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages x+400
Price $1.50

  • 1st ed., 1st printing Price from listing in publisher advertisement, Outlook 1894-01-13 p83, as "In the Press."
  • The book is noted "in press" again in "Literary Notes", NY Times -01-29 p3. Publication prior to that of the UK edition (Heinemann, March?) is not certain from newspapers.
  • Earliest found otherwise: "Zangwill's Stories", Chi. Tribune 1894-03-11 p40 (no price)--a substantial review by E.J.M. as "expected with interest on both sides of the Atlantic", by the Jewish novelist "favorably known to the readers of periodical literature".
  • Data are from the June 1909 ed./printing by The Macmillan Company (see), whose copyright page (viewed at Internet Archive) states:   Copyright, 1893,   By Macmillan and Co.   ------   Set up and electrotyped January, 1894. Reprinted April, 1894; September, 1895; January, 1897; October, 1898; August, 1899; June, 1909. [end quote; US printer statement follows]
  • This first edition, and its first two listed reprints, must be published by Macmillan and Co., as prior to the mid-1896 reorganization when Macmillan operations in New York City were incorporated as The Macmillan Company.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies 1894 William Heinemann Hardcover Collection x+400
The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies Cover 1909 The Macmillan Company Hardcover Collection x+400
The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies 2011 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 38413