Title: In Search of the Unknown

Title: In Search of the Unknown Title Record # 5596
Author: Robert W. Chambers
Date: 1904-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Lost Species
Language: English

Note: Fix-up novel with five stories included mostly intact: "The Harbour Master", "In Quest of the Dingue", "Is the Ux Extinct?", "Farrago's Fate" (not in the database April 2020), and "A Matter of Interest". "The Harbour Master" itself has been published as "In Search of the Unknown" (see).

Synopsis: A fixup novel, it consists of humorous light fantasies with strong science fictional elements. The stories feature the narrator, a man who searches for lost species of animals, and his journeys to find these animals. The creatures include among others a half-man, half-amphibian called "the harbor-master". The narrator falls in love in most of the stories, unfortunately with women who are always whisked away at the last moment. In Search of the Unknown (1904) and Police!!! (1915): "The Lost Species sequence – [these two collections of linked stories] – features the adventures of a philandering zoologist in his search for unknown beasts ..." --SFE3: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biog. entry by Mike Ashley

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Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
In Search of the Unknown	1904-06-00	Robert W. Chambers	Harper & Brothers		$1.50^?$: US dollar	286	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	1905-02-00	Robert W. Chambers	Archibald Constable & Co.		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).	331	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	1974-00-00	Robert W. Chambers	Hyperion Press (Classics of Science Fiction)	0-88355-105-5	$8.95^?$: US dollar	285	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	1974-00-00	Robert W. Chambers	Hyperion Press (Classics of Science Fiction)	0-88355-134-9	$3.75^?$: US dollar	286	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Early Science Fiction Novels: A Microfiche Collection	1985-00-00	Thomas D. Clareson	Greenwood Press		$795.00^?$: US dollar		other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.	omni
The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers	2000-07-00	Robert W. Chambers	Chaosium (Call of Cthulhu Fiction #6023)	1-56882-126-3	$19.95^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 643	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	H. E. Fassl
The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers	2004-02-00	Robert W. Chambers	Chaosium (Call of Cthulhu Fiction #6023)	1-56882-170-0	$19.95^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 643	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	H. E. Fassl
In Search of the Unknown	2004-06-00	Robert W. Chambers	Kessinger	1-4191-2582-6	$26.95^?$: US dollar	231	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	2006-06-23	Robert W. Chambers	Project Gutenberg	18668	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	2006-06-26	Robert W. Chambers	World Library Classics	1-55742-943-X	$29.95^?$: US dollar	204	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	2006-07-13	Robert W. Chambers	Wildside Press	1-55742-934-0	$15.95^?$: US dollar	204	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	2007-06-29	Robert W. Chambers	Wildside Press	978-1-55742-596-6	$15.95^?$: US dollar	296	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	2008-08-30	Robert W. Chambers	Wildside Press	978-0-913960-69-1	$24.95^?$: US dollar	300	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
In Search of the Unknown	2008-08-30	Robert W. Chambers	Wildside Press	978-0-913960-68-4	$14.95^?$: US dollar	300	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Robert W. Chambers: Volume 2	2010-06-07	Robert W. Chambers	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-193-5	£13.99^?£: UK pound	512	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Robert W. Chambers: Volume 2	2010-06-07	Robert W. Chambers	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-194-2	£21.99^?£: UK pound	512	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
In Search of the Unknown	2014-08-14	Robert W. Chambers	Dover Publications	978-0-486-78090-0	$10.95^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
In Search of the Unknown / Police!!!	2017-10-13	Robert W. Chambers	Stark House Press (Stark House Supernatural Classics)	978-1-944520-38-0	$17.95^?$: US dollar	292	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Eric York

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Reviews

Review by Richard Delap (1975) in Delap's F & SF Review, April 1975
Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction
Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years