Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony

Overview:

  • Title: Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony
  • Author: W. C. Morrow
  • Year: 1908
  • Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: v+278
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Lentala of the South Seas
  • Notes:
      1st ed.
    • Price from brief review NY Times 1908-12-05 p753ff "One Hundred Holiday Books ... A Guide to Christmas Shoppers"
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover -- title page states "the illustrations from oil painting by Maynard Dixon", undated -- t.p. verso gives (c)1908 by Stokes and (c)1907 by The Success Company of New York; states "September, 1908" -- text spans p1-278
    • Front cover design incorporates a smaller version of the frontispiece illustration (oval portrait, of Lentala presumably) --Internet Archive: lentalofsouthsea00morrrich; see also Project Gutenberg #51915
    • Discrepancy: LCCN and OCLC (below) -- "Frontispiece and plates facing p. 6, 12, 114, 232, 252 and 262" (frontispiece plus 6) NY Times review (above) -- "Eight illustrations in color by [MD]." (from the publisher presumably)