A Tarpaulin Muster

Overview:

• Title: A Tarpaulin Muster
• Author: John Masefield
• Year: 1907
• Publisher: E. Grant Richards
• Price: 3/6
• Pages: 227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: A Tarpaulin Muster
• Notes:
  • 1st ed.
  • "First Edition   April 1907"
  • --stated t.p. verso in 1913-08 2nd ed. (viewed at HathiTrust)
  • Price 3s. 6d. listing in publisher advert Manchester Guardian 1907-05-02 p5, heading "E. Grant Richards // Some Spring Books".
  • Price 6s. stated at foot of review column "Recent Fiction" Irish Times -05-10 p7 (positive, noting in particular the story "Some Irish Fairies").
  • WorldCat library record OCLC 4620826 provides list of Contents (24 story titles) and reports: -- "First edition, one of 1500 copies. Cf. Handley-Taylor, p. 28." -- "Reprinted in part from various periodicals."
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full of one copy from Harvard U, with tipped in portrait and inscription both from Masefield apparently, and with original cover.
  • HDL provides full view of two other copies also with original cover (catalog record). -- title page shows (quote three lines) "London // E. Grant Richards // 1907" -- t.p. verso attributes "cover design" to Symington, evidently meaning one illustration of "The Inchcape Rock", {{OCLC|503970329}} -- Contents (I to XXIV) -- p[9], Note -- collection spans p[11]-[228]; p[228] closes, "Plymouth // William Brendon and Son, Ltd., Printers" -- back pages [1]-[20], "A Catalogue // of Books Published by // E. Grant Richards // 7 Carlton Street, London // Together with a List // of Announcements, 1907" (double slash represents line break)
  • Cover image from Amazon.com 2018-04-28 as "A Tarpaulin Muster (Short Story Index Reprint Series)", "Hardcover – June 1, 1907", "Ayer Co Pub (June 1, 1907)", ISBN 0836936779.
  • Amazon blurb states that the book is "reproduced from the original artifact"; that in the image appears to be an old book and its cover matches that of the 1907 ed. viewed at HDL.