• Publication: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost StoriesPublication Record # 729238
• Author: Ralph Adams Cram
• Date: 1896-03-00
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• 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.
  • Last page unnumbered (inferred) --libraries report both US and UK eds. as 150 pages; US pp. 150-[151] viewed at HathiTrust. Page numbers from the 1895 US ed. with identical page count.
  • Publication date 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.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 000811735
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1063917011

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