Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance

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Overview:

Title: Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance
Author: Dan Beard
Year: 1892
Publisher: Charles L. Webster and Co.
Price: $1.00
Pages: xvi+221
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance
Notes:
LCCN 06-10267 links e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL), and OCLC 8727472, subject "Labor movement--Fiction" -- "2 p.l., xi-xvi, 17-221 p. illus. 21 cm." (that is, 17 follows xvi) Price from listing "Books Received" NY Times 1892-05-23 p3, "Square 12mo" Publ date inferred from that and reviews 1892-05-30 Det. Free Press p8 (as one story, positive), LA Times p11 (as "Moonlight ...", brief)

HDL (catalog record) provides full view of 5 copies with original cover (best from Cornell U), some with endpapers -- front cover illustration is that of page 44 -- frontispiece: b/w drawing "The Real Agitator is the Conservative. Tumults are Caused by the Fixed Rocks--the Conservatives in the Stream of Progress.", dated 1892 -- title page, decorated, shows as five lines wrapped: "Moonblight and Six Feet of Ro[-]mance by Dan. Beard with illustrations by the author" -- t.p.: "Charles L. Webster and Company // Publishers New York MDCCCXCII" -- t.p. verso: (c) 1892 "Chas. L. Webster & Co."; identifies printer -- Foreword, p.xi-xiv -- List of Illustrations, xv-xvi, lists frontispiece plus 48 (Moonblight) plus 11 b/w drawings, some full-page, some plainly signed "DanBeard" and dated 1891 or 1892 (Moonblight) or 89 -- stories span p17-197 and 201-21 -- p201 acknowledges the Cosmopolitan Publishing Company permission to reprint illustrations -- p[223-30], 8-page "Standard Publications issued by Chas. L. Webster & Co."