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Title: The Captain of the Polestar: Being an Extract from the Singular Journal of John M'Allister Ray, Student of Medicine

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Title: The Captain of the Polestar: Being an Extract from the Singular Journal of John M'Allister Ray, Student of Medicine Title Record # 944504
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: 1979-00-00
Variant Title of: The Captain of the Polestar (1883) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: In early editions, the name "McAlister" was printed with a superscript c which has often been mistaken for an apostrophe; therefore, in a number of reprints and secondary sources, it appears as "M'Alister" (or, in this case, "M'Allister").
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1979-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications 0-486-23725-7
$6.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
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 Lida Moser Checkmark
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1979-08-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications 0-486-23725-7
$4.00?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
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 Lida Moser Checkmark
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1989-06-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Amereon House 0-8488-0752-9
$30.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
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