Spun-Yarn Sea Stories

5 stories This 1898 collection, the 1899 collection "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Tales of the Sea, and one more story were published together in 1900 under the former title Spun-Yarn: Sea Stories. --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute and Mike Ashley (where the 1900 is "omni" rather than "coll")

SFE3 fashions the title with a colon after 'Spun-Yarn'. The first edition title page begins with these three lines (viewed at HathiTrust):   Spun-Yarn [large size]   Sea Stories. By   Morgan Robertson

• Publication date (inferred) and price from the earliest item found, listing in "Harper & Brothers New Fiction", Literary World 1898-03-19 p96, as "Illustrated. Post 8vo, cloth, ornamental. $1.25."
• Early reviews: The Sun (Baltimore) -04-09 p7; St. Louis Post-Dispatch -04-16 p4
• HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover. As displayed April 2020 there are five blank page-images between frontispiece (image 3) and title page, which is the first printed page. -- Illustrations, p[vii], lists 2 (frontis. and one facing p98) -- Introduction, p.ix-[xii] -- stories span p1-[215] (last page unnumbered) -- publisher advertisements, p[217-20] (books by four others including Doyle, one page each)
  
  The introduction evidently acknowledges the example of Kipling, the Genius; first daunting, later inspirational and instructive, for Robertson, the Man.