Famous Impostors
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Overview:
- Title: Famous Impostors
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Year: 1910
- ISBN-10:
- Publisher: Sturgis & Walton Company
- Price: $2.00
- Pages: ix+349
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Non-fiction
- Title Reference: Famous Impostors
- Notes:
- 1st edition
- Publication date is stated on the copyright page, and supported by a brief review in "New York Literary Notes", NY Times 1910-11-05 pBR16, as "published this week". But there is little coverage in US newspapers before mid-December.
- Price from publisher advertisement "Autumn Books", NY Times 19109-10-23 pLI10, as "(Crown 8vo. Illustrated. $2.00 net.)"
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of multiple copies including one from U California with probably original front cover. (But the Cornell U copy has a different front cover, apparently original, although its printed pages appear to be identical.) -- copyright page: "Published November, 1910" -- Preface, p.v-ix -- Illustrations, p[xiii], lists 10 (frontispiece plus 9 plates not included in the pagination); evidently portrait drawings of 10 "impostors" -- text spans p3-345 -- Index, p347-49 Except the title leaf, interior pages appear identical to those of the UK edition, printed in the US.