• Publication: The Alchemist; or, The House of ClaesPublication Record # 702755
• Author:
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
• Date: 1861-04-00
• Publisher: Rudd & Carleton
• Price:
  $1.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 310
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • WorldCat record OCLC 8680097 reports: -- Translated by O.W. Wight and F.B. Goodrich -- "Philosophical Studies" is displayed "at head of title". -- Novels of M. Honorʹe de Balzac. Library edition,, v. 3
  • Publication date inferred from listings in "New Announcements" and "New Publications", American Publishers' Circular [APC] 1861-03-30 p118 and -04-27 p150; and classified advertisement NY Times -04-08 p1, "The Next Balzac Novel ... will be ready next week ...".
  • Price from apparent back cover of A Key to the Disunion (1861): "Attractive New Books", this listing "Balzac's Novels ... Three Novels are now ready-- [listed, this one 3rd of 3] Price $1.00 each." (viewed at HathiTrust)
  • Preface by the translators --reported and quoted, APC 1861-04-27, which names both. The earlier notice, APC 1861-03-30, names only one translator thus: (quote) Translated from the French by F. B. Goodrich ("Dick Tinto.")
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 06-6317
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 8680097
  • Reginald-1: 00812B

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• The Alchemist; or, The House of Claes • (1861) • novel by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of La recherche de l'absolu 1834)