The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas Story
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Overview:
- Title: The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas Story
- Author: Clara F. Guernsey
- Year: 1871
- Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
- Price: $1.00
- Pages: 117
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Merman and the Figure-Head: A Christmas Story
- Notes: 1st. ed. (published for the 1870 Christmas season, as 1871)
{{OCLC|11566682}}
-- "117 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations" (uncredited)
Price from publisher advertisement N-Y Tribune 1870-12-10 p6
-- as "... Figurehead", no hyphen
-- "16mo. [printed on] Toned paper. Extra cloth. $1."
Briefly reviewed Det. Free Press 1870-12-22 p3
Announced as "nearly ready" and briefly reviewed as "recently published", American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular 1870-10-15 and -12-01
{{OCLC|50917589}} reports e-copy at Indiana University Digital Library Program (dlib.indiana.edu) -- interior only -- text spans p7-117 -- appended 2-page "Juvenile Publications of [JBL]" -- frontispiece and 4 plates not included in the pagination, uncredited -- frontispiece signed VIS and EBB (engraver Van Ingen & Snyder and E.B. Bensell, presumably)