The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies
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Overview:
- Title: The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies
- Author: I. Zangwill
- Year: 1894
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Price: $1.50
- Pages: x+400
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies
- Notes:
- 1st ed., 1st printing Price from listing in publisher advertisement, Outlook 1894-01-13 p83, as "In the Press."
- The book is noted "in press" again in "Literary Notes", NY Times -01-29 p3. Publication prior to that of the UK edition (Heinemann, March?) is not certain from newspapers.
- Earliest found otherwise: "Zangwill's Stories", Chi. Tribune 1894-03-11 p40 (no price)--a substantial review by E.J.M. as "expected with interest on both sides of the Atlantic", by the Jewish novelist "favorably known to the readers of periodical literature".
- Data are from the June 1909 ed./printing by The Macmillan Company (see), whose copyright page (viewed at Internet Archive) states: Copyright, 1893, By Macmillan and Co. ------ Set up and electrotyped January, 1894. Reprinted April, 1894; September, 1895; January, 1897; October, 1898; August, 1899; June, 1909. [end quote; US printer statement follows]
- This first edition, and its first two listed reprints, must be published by Macmillan and Co., as prior to the mid-1896 reorganization when Macmillan operations in New York City were incorporated as The Macmillan Company.