Break o' Day Tales
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Overview:
- Title: Break o' Day Tales
- Author: Frank West Rollins
- Year: 1894
- Publisher: Joseph Knight Company
- Price: $0.75
- Pages: 204
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Break o' Day Tales
- Notes: Known speculative fiction contents alone listed below (per Bleiler's "Science-Fiction: The Early Years") OCLC as "o'day", with list of Contents Price from retailer advert (A.C. McClurg "Bulletin of New Books" October; #318, bks received durign Sep) Chi. Tribune 1894-09-29 p10 --prices match publisher advertisements for several books from Merriam or Scribner's This edition blurbed in "Some New Books" The Globe (Toronto) 1894-08-25 p11 (no price) Otherwise not found 2017-04-14 in automated search (title variants and 'frank west rollins') of multiple newspapers 1894 HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of two copies with original cover, both apparent 1st printing (1 green cloth, 1 beige cloth; black and brown? design, no illustration): -- Title page: "Break o' Day Tales"; "Boston // Joseph Knight Company // 1894" -- "The Steam Interlude" spans p31-90 (2nd of 5 stories, p[1]-204)