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Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century

Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D.

First published 1890
Publisher F. J. Schulte and Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Pages 367
Price $1.25

Reviews in US newspapers 1890, none brief:   St. Louis Post-Dispatch -04-13 p32 (long)   Chicago Tribune -04-19 p13   San Francisco Chronicle -04-27 p7 ("Literary Notes" -12-21 identifies the writer as Donnelly)   N-Y Tribune -06-27 p8 (as 12mo) All mention Edward Bellamy Looking Backward (1888), commonly as the optimistic polar opposite to pessimistic Caesar's Column. Chi. Tribune notes this the first of the Looking Backward imitators.

1st ed. LCCN: "[c1890]" -- catalogued 1906 as by Ignatius Donnelly, no mention of Boisgilbert OCLC: "(c)1890" -- "by Edmund Boisgilbert"

Listing Chi. Tribune 1890-04-12 p13 "Books Received" (no price) Price from review SF Chronicle -04-27 p7 -- "A writer who conceals his identity under the pseudonym of Edward Boisgilbert ..." -- "For sale by all booksellers; price, in cloth, $1 25."

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century 1891 Frederick Warne Hardcover Novel 216
Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century Cover 2003 Wesleyan University Press Trade Paperback Novel Ean Taylor lv+275
Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century 2003 Wesleyan University Press Hardcover Novel 1v+275