Copyright version
The 2009 Night Shade collection
The Dream of X [...] (viewed as "Look inside" at Amazon.com 2019-06-18) contains this work in its second part, "Copyright Versions". From the Introduction by Ross E. Lockhart (
see), page xi:
"... we move on to
Hodgson's copyright versions, stripped-down abridgements of his best-known works, written to secure American copyright protections. Many of these have a "Cliffs Notes" feeling to them, particularly "The Ghost Pirates" and "Carnacki, the Ghost Finder". ... It is likely that these copyright versions were never intended by Hodgson to be seen by a reading audience ..." (emphasis added).
This one is printed on two leaves, the 2009 Contents list implies.
