The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas Story
| 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)
No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas Story | Clara F. Guernsey | Novella |