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Publication: The Mystery of the Sea

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  • Publication: The Mystery of the SeaPublication Record # 84070
  • Author: Bram Stoker
  • Date: 1902-07-00
  • Publisher: William Heinemann
  • Price:
    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: x+498
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • 1st UK edition
    • Announced for August, The Bookman July 1902 p130 "News Notes". July publication inferred from listing in "Publications of the Week", The Spectator #3864 1902-07-19 p92, as crown octavo, 6s.; and from the earliest reviews found: The Scotsman -07-24 p2, The Irish Times -07-25 p7.
    • Publisher advertisements in The Athenaeum -09-06 p302 and -10-18 p509 both state "Third impression".
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original front cover. -- copyright page states protection under the Berne Treaty, and US (c)1902 by Stoker -- Contents, p.ix-x, lists Chapters I to LIII only -- unnumbered pages [xi-xii], untitled, each display one encoded message -- novel spans p3-454 -- Appendices, p[455]-98, or Appendix A to Appendix E (see the novel record) William Heinemann catalogue follows, perhaps 32 pages of 6-shilling books and one page "The Dollar Library of American Fiction", published monthly, 42 shillings for 12-month subscription. Pages 3-454 appear identical to those in the US ed. except that p3 lacks heading "The Mystery of the Sea" and p454 lacks footer "The End". Pages 457-98 appear identical.
    • British Library (BL, below) and OCLC 607068127 report "viii, 454 pages", as LCCN 02-8118 reports for the US ed. That fits the US ed. without the Appendix. In both editions the novel ends on page 454 and the Appendix pages from 457 are numbered.
    • Price from Tuck, who gives page count 510 --evidently as x+[2]+498 where "[2]" is the unnumbered leaf that exhibits one encoded message each page.
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Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years N/A Rtrace 2019-03-30 15:08:44
Bleiler Supernatural Verified Rtrace 2019-03-30 15:08:44
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Rtrace 2019-03-30 15:08:44
Bleiler78 Verified Rtrace 2019-03-30 15:08:44
Clute/Grant Verified Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
Currey N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
Reginald1 Verified Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
Tuck Verified Bluesman 2017-05-14 15:12:02
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