Spun-Yarn Sea Stories
From Author Wars - https://authorwars.com/publications/spun-yarn-sea-stories-692813.html
Overview:
- Title: Spun-Yarn Sea Stories
- Author: Morgan Robertson
- Year: 1898
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers
- Price: $1.25
- Pages: xi+215
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Slumber of a Soul: A Tale of a Mate and a Cook
- Notes:
- Publication date (inferred) and price from the earliest item found, listing in "Harper & Brothers New Fiction", Literary World 1898-03-19 p96, as "Illustrated. Post 8vo, cloth, ornamental. $1.25."
- Early reviews: The Sun (Baltimore) -04-09 p7; St. Louis Post-Dispatch -04-16 p4
-
HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover.
As displayed April 2020 there are five blank page-images between frontispiece (image 3) and title page, which is the first printed page.
-- Illustrations, p[vii], lists 2 (frontis. and one facing p98)
-- Introduction, p.ix-[xii]
-- stories span p1-[215] (last page unnumbered)
-- publisher advertisements, p[217-20] (books by four others including Doyle, one page each)
The introduction evidently acknowledges the example of Kipling, the Genius; first daunting, later inspirational and instructive, for Robertson, the Man.