Hauntings: Fantastic Stories

Overview:

  • Title: Hauntings: Fantastic Stories
  • Author: Vernon Lee
  • Year: 1890
  • Publisher: F. F. Lovell
  • Price: $0.50
  • Pages: xi+237
  • Binding: digest
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: A Wicked Voice
  • Notes:
    Digest format, given the 50-cent paper-cover edition, is implied by size 7 x 4-3/4 inches, which the Dime Novel Bibliography reports for this series. LeBlanc series 520
      Data primarily from Library of Congress copy 2, viewed online at LOC.gov:
    • Front cover or wrapper (LOC image 263), header and footer (layout varies):   "No. 73   Lovell's International Series   50 Cents"   "Issued Semi-Weekly. Annual Subscription, $30.00. Feb. 27, 1890."
    • -- title page displays LC Copyright stamp, dated 1890-04-04, and imprint "Frank F. Lovell & Company" -- t.p. verso: (c)1890 by "John W. Lovell" -- Preface, p[vii]-xi (no list of Contents) -- stories span p[1]-237 Page numbers below are those of internal title pages. Two pages later begins either the story per se, or associated material by Lee.
    • Back pages [239-45]: "Recent Publications. Frank F. Lovell & Co."
    • Facing the title page (as image 8, perhaps the inside front cover): "Lovell's International Series of Modern Novels" contains a list of volumes #1 to 49; title, author, and price.