Publication: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

Publication: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 366868
Author: Ralph Adams Cram
Date: 1896-03-00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pub. Series: Handy Novels
Price:
1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 151
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Notes:
- 1st UK ed.
- Publication date, series, and price from listings in "Chatto & Windus's New Novels", February/March 1896, as "Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d." with annotations "[Shortly." (1896-02-08), "[March 12." (-03-07), and none (-03-11, -03-21). The latter panel, The Athenaeum #3569 1896-03-21 p391, lists this and one other book under heading (quote): NEW "HANDY NOVELS."--Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d. each.
- Last page unnumbered (inferred) --libraries report both US and UK eds. as 150 pages; see US pp. 150/151 (viewed at HathiTrust). Page numbers from the 1895 US ed. with identical page count.
- As of August 2019, seven WorldCat library records report series "Handy Novels", including four as Chatto & Windus 1892 to 1896.
- Tuck probably reports the short title only, as 160 pages.
External IDs:
- BL: 000811735
- OCLC/WorldCat: 55985327

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Collection Title: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories • collection by Ralph Adams Cram (variant of Black Spirits & White: A Book of Ghost Stories 1895)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

3 • No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
33 • In Kropfsberg Keep • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
55 • The White Villa • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
83 • Sister Maddelena • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
115 • Notre Dame des Eaux • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
133 • The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
151 • Postscript (Black Spirits and White) • (1895) • essay by Ralph Adams Cram

Secondary Verifications

Source	Status	Verifier	Date
Tuck	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-09 12:43:32
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-09 12:43:32

Publication: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

Secondary Verifications