• Publication: The GhostPublication Record # 586821
• Author: Wm. D. O'Connor
• Date: 1867-00-00
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam & Son
• Price:
  $1.25^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 93
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • 1st ed.
  • Price from "List of Books Recently Published in the [US]" Amer. Lit. Gaz. and Publ. Circular 1867-11-01 p16, as "Sq. 16mo." and "Cl. $1 25; full gilt, $1 25." (a single format?)
  • In the same newspaper, listed 1867-09-02 p246 in the publisher's "New Publications in press, or just ready for the Autumn Season, 1867-8" (no price), as "The Ghost. A Christmas Story."
  • Hathitrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of 4 copies, three with original cover (non-pictorial) and complete interior, apparently (one of two from U California lacks all front pages except the title page). Title page (Library of Congress copy) credits the contributors as entered here and displays at foot (quote four lines, all caps):   New York :   G. P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway.   London : Sampson Low & Co.   1867. -- both illustrations precede the title leaf, as all three apparently complete e-copies are displayed at HDL -- text spans p1-93
  • That LC copy is inscribed, signed (script "W.D.O'Connor."), and dated (1867-12-05) by the author (see).
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 8716450
  • Reginald-1: 10910

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Ghost • novella by William D. O'Connor [as by Wm. D. O'Connor]
•  The Ghost • interior artwork by Thos. Nast