Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy

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.