The Mystery of the Sea

Overview:

  • Title: The Mystery of the Sea
  • Author: Bram Stoker
  • Year: 1902
  • Publisher: William Heinemann
  • Price: 6/-
  • Pages: x+498
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Mystery of the Sea
  • Notes:
    • 1st UK edition
    • Announced for August, The Bookman July 1902 p130 "News Notes". July publication inferred from listing in "Publications of the Week", The Spectator #3864 1902-07-19 p92, as crown octavo, 6s.; and from the earliest reviews found: The Scotsman -07-24 p2, The Irish Times -07-25 p7.
    • Publisher advertisements in The Athenaeum -09-06 p302 and -10-18 p509 both state "Third impression".
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original front cover. -- copyright page states protection under the Berne Treaty, and US (c)1902 by Stoker -- Contents, p.ix-x, lists Chapters I to LIII only -- unnumbered pages [xi-xii], untitled, each display one encoded message -- novel spans p3-454 -- Appendices, p[455]-98, or Appendix A to Appendix E (see the novel record) William Heinemann catalogue follows, perhaps 32 pages of 6-shilling books and one page "The Dollar Library of American Fiction", published monthly, 42 shillings for 12-month subscription.

      Pages 3-454 appear identical to those in the US ed. except that p3 lacks heading "The Mystery of the Sea" and p454 lacks footer "The End". Pages 457-98 appear identical.
    • British Library (BL, below) and OCLC 607068127 report "viii, 454 pages", as {{LCCN|02-8118}} reports for the US ed. That fits the US ed. without the Appendix. In both editions the novel ends on page 454 and the Appendix pages from 457 are numbered.
    • Price from Tuck, who gives page count 510 --evidently as x+[2]+498 where "[2]" is the unnumbered leaf that exhibits one encoded message each page.