The Extra Day

Overview:

  • Title: The Extra Day
  • Author: Algernon Blackwood
  • Year: 1915
  • Publisher: The Macmillan Company
  • Price: $1.35
  • Pages: 358
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Extra Day
  • Notes:
    • US ed., 1st printing
    • 1st ed.? September publication date is stated on the copyright page, implies this is the 1st ed. Newspaper and magazine coverage found 2019-02-07 by automated search (three-word title, plus various) does not support release in September, nor prior to November, stated publication date of the 2nd printing. : 40 UK hits, October and early November : 2 India hits, early November : no US hits prior to that mid-November, below
    • Price from full review, NY Times 1915-11-14 pBR43 (anonymous, very positive).
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover (from Harvard U): -- front cover gold-stamped lettering on (?)dark green cloth -- no half-title leaf § -- copyright page states "Published, September, 1915." § -- Contents, chapters I-XX, one unnumbered page without details (contrast the UK ed.) -- text spans p1-358; p358 footer, "Printed in the United States of America" -- p[361-63], "by The Same Author" -- p[364], "New Macmillan Fiction" § § Contrast the 2nd printing.
    • WorldCat library records (OCLC, below) reports size 20cm and 29cm. Presumably the latter is a mistake for 20cm.