Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories
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Overview:
- Title: Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories
- Author: Ralph Adams Cram
- Year: 1896
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus
- Price: 1/6
- Pages: 151
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Dead Valley
- Notes:
- 1st UK ed.
- Publication date, series, and price from listings in "Chatto & Windus's New Novels", February/March 1896, as "Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d." with annotations "[Shortly." (1896-02-08), "[March 12." (-03-07), and none (-03-11, -03-21). The latter panel, The Athenaeum #3569 1896-03-21 p391, lists this and one other book under heading (quote): NEW "HANDY NOVELS."--Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 1s. 6d. each.
- Last page unnumbered (inferred) --libraries report both US and UK eds. as 150 pages; see US pp. 150/151 (viewed at HathiTrust). Page numbers from the 1895 US ed. with identical page count.
- As of August 2019, seven WorldCat library records report series "Handy Novels", including four as Chatto & Windus 1892 to 1896.
- Tuck probably reports the short title only, as 160 pages.