Notes: 1st ed. Price is from George Merriam Hyde, "Good Yarns—Well Spun", The Book Buyer 1898-06-01 p440-41: joint review with Robertson's recent collection Spun-Yarn, this one as "16mo, 75 cents." Listed 1898-05-28 in "Books Received", Chi. Tribune, and "Publications Received", Literary World same date. Reviewed also in NY Times 1898-06-11 pBR382 and Det. Free Press -06-13 p7. Digital copy at HDL (per Books.Google.com: original from The Ohio State University; digitized 2014-11-05; id = pOxEAQAAMAAJ) Title page shows: -- Futility // by Morgan Robertson // Author of Spun-Yarn -- New York: M. F. Mansfield // 22 East Sixteenth Street (no date) Copyright page: -- Copyright 1898 by M. F. Mansfield Text spans p[1]-145 (probably about 20,000 words)