The Mystery of the Sea

Overview:

  • Title: The Mystery of the Sea
  • Author: Bram Stoker
  • Year: 1902
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: viii+498
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Mystery of the Sea
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • Announced for the end of the month, NY Times 1902-03-01 pBR12 "Notes and News".
    • Price from publisher advertisement, NY Times -03-22 pBR9.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record 008667846 and 100104611) provides full view of two copies without original cover. The latter interior is different only, probably, because images of front pages are assembled in the wrong sequence. -- copyright page: (c)1902 by Stoker; "Published March, 1902" -- Contents, p.vii-viii, lists Chapters I to LIII only -- pp. [1] and [2], untitled, each display one encoded message -- novel spans p3-454 -- Appendix, p[455]-98 comprises Appendix A to Appendix E (see the novel record)
    • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports viii+454 pages but the Appendix pages from 457 are numbered.