A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
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Overview:
- Title: A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Year: 1912
- Publisher: Rand McNally & Company
- Pages: 157
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: A Christmas Carol
- Notes:
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One in a series for schoolchildren and their teachers, with 20 pages of "apparatus" presumably by West, p138-57, following the story
- Edited by Katherine Gill West, identified on the title page Series editor Katharine Lee Bates
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy, with original cover apparently -- front cover illustration is a series "coat of arms", repeated as title page vignette -- title page, no date -- t.p. verso states copyright 1912 -- "Introduction to the Series", p5-6, Katharine Lee Bates -- "The Table if Contents", p7 -- "A List of the Illustrations", p9, lists 12: frontispiece portrait of Dickens (at age 18, 1880, by Samuel Lawrence) plus 11 plates by Winter (not included in the pagination, the first preceding and facing p11) -- "A Christmas Carol", p11-137 -- "A Biographical Sketch", p138-44, -- "Notes", p145-50 -- "A Reading List", p151-52 -- "Christmas Programmes", p153-54 -- "Suggestions to Teachers", p155-57
- The last printed page, p[158], "Some Choice Additions to The Canterbury Classics", lists 5, including two spec fic. It is not clear that any of these precedes A Christmas Carol in the series. Indeed, this book carries a copyright date only.