The Ghost
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Overview:
- Title: The Ghost
- Author: Wm. D. O'Connor
- Year: 1867
- Publisher: G. P. Putnam & Son
- Price: $1.25
- Pages: 93
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Ghost
- Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Price from "List of Books Recently Published in the [US]" Amer. Lit. Gaz. and Publ. Circular 1867-11-01 p16, as "Sq. 16mo." and "Cl. $1 25; full gilt, $1 25." (a single format?)
- In the same newspaper, listed 1867-09-02 p246 in the publisher's "New Publications in press, or just ready for the Autumn Season, 1867-8" (no price), as "The Ghost. A Christmas Story."
- Hathitrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of 4 copies, three with original cover (non-pictorial) and complete interior, apparently (one of two from U California lacks all front pages except the title page). Title page (Library of Congress copy) credits the contributors as entered here and displays at foot (quote four lines, all caps): New York : G. P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway. London : Sampson Low & Co. 1867. -- both illustrations precede the title leaf, as all three apparently complete e-copies are displayed at HDL -- text spans p1-93
- That LC copy is inscribed, signed (script "W.D.O'Connor."), and dated (1867-12-05) by the author (see).