Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy
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Overview:
- Title: Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy
- Author: Margaret Horton Potter
- Year: 1902
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers
- Price: $1.50
- Pages: xvi+494
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy
- Notes:
- 1st ed., New York and London This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #38710 (see).
- Publication date from title page. US price $1.50 is confirmed by listing in The Dial 1902-09-16 p170ff, "Announcement of Fall Books" (not yet out). Publication during the calendar month is confirmed by a discursive publisher advertisement "New Books News", NY Times -09-27 pBR13, as "published to-day" (Saturday). Same day listing in "Books published this week", Chi. Tribune, with long review p19.
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of two copies with original cover: -- title page: "New York and London 1902" -- t.p. verso: "Published September, 1902." Roman numbered pages v-xvi span the Contents, Preface, Libri Personae, and the verse "Prologue: The Incarnation". Implied pagination as i-xvi and 1-494 covers all printed leaves.