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The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas Story

Clara F. Guernsey

First published 1871
Publisher J. B. Lippincott
Format Hardcover
Type Chapbook
Pages 117
Price $1.00

1st. ed. (published for the 1870 Christmas season, as 1871) {{OCLC|11566682}} -- "117 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations" (uncredited) Price from publisher advertisement N-Y Tribune 1870-12-10 p6 -- as "... Figurehead", no hyphen -- "16mo. [printed on] Toned paper. Extra cloth. $1." Briefly reviewed Det. Free Press 1870-12-22 p3 Announced as "nearly ready" and briefly reviewed as "recently published", American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular 1870-10-15 and -12-01

{{OCLC|50917589}} reports e-copy at Indiana University Digital Library Program (dlib.indiana.edu) -- interior only -- text spans p7-117 -- appended 2-page "Juvenile Publications of [JBL]" -- frontispiece and 4 plates not included in the pagination, uncredited -- frontispiece signed VIS and EBB (engraver Van Ingen & Snyder and E.B. Bensell, presumably)

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