The Diamond Seeker of Brazil

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Overview:

Title: The Diamond Seeker of Brazil
Author: Leon Lewis
Year: 1891
Publisher: Robert Bonner's Sons
Price: $0.25
Pages: 206
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Diamond Seeker of Brazil
Notes: 1st ed. as a book LCCN links local digital copy Publ date and price as The Popular Series, No. 10, from front cover, t.p., back page (digital copy, below) "Price, paper, 25 cents each" per capsule SF Chronicle 1891-07-12 p7 -- "Robert Bonner's Sons issue in their popular series ... Both stories are well known to readers of the New York Ledger." That and copyrights suggest 1864 serial in The New York Ledger, Bonner's weekly story paper.

Digital copy at Internet Archive, with original front cover pasted inside, apparently -- Title page "The Diamond Seeker of Brazil: A Novel" ... footer: "The Popular Series [details]" -- (c) 1964 and 1891 by the publisher; "Press of The New York Ledger, New York" -- novel spans p[7]-206 -- back page lists The Popular Series, Nos. 1 to 11