The Paradise of the North: A Story of Discovery and Adventure Around the Pole
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Overview:
- Title: The Paradise of the North: A Story of Discovery and Adventure Around the Pole
- Author: David Lawson Johnstone
- Year: 1893
- Publisher: Thomas Whittaker
- Price: $1.25
- Pages: 302
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Paradise of the North: A Story of Discovery and Adventure Around the Pole
- Notes:
- 1st US ed.
- Publication date (inferred) and price from review in "Books for the Season", Nashville American 1893-12-10 p11. This edition listed in "Publishers Announcements: Fall of 1893", Literary World -09-23 p312-22, under "Books for Young People". No other notice found 2020-03-19 in various automated searches of 1893 US newspapers.
- The long title and author name, short illustrator name, which match the 302-page 1892 Chambers ed. (viewed at HathiTrust), are reported by WorldCat (OCLC, below) as "Thomas Whittaker, [189-?]".
- Bleiler gives the publisher of the first U.S. edition as "W. Loucher". However, no books of any title by that publisher have been found. Given the similarity of the name to that of the illustrator, it is expected that Bleiler is referring to this edition.