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Coals of fire and other stories / by David Christie Murray.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1884 Murray
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Yellowbacks.
- Publishers' advertisements -- 1887.
- Publishers' paper bindings (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 2, vii, 320, 32 p. ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chatto & Windus, 1884 ([London] : Jas. Wade)
- Contents:
- Coals of fire
- The showman's ghost
- Mr. Bowker's courtship
- The major's valediction
- Frighted with false fire
- An old meerschaum
- The romance of Giovanni Calvotti
- Cruel Barbara Allen
- Skeleton keys
- Rival queens
- A silver wedding
- What Bessie saw on the moor.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements appear before and after text. Advertisements after the text dated October, 1887.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: In publisher's binding, paper covered boards; advertisement for Pears soap on back cover; advertisements on pastedowns and flyleaves.
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Yellowbacks: Don't Judge These Victorian Books by Their Covers," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2015.
- Athenaeum's copy stamped on t.p.: "Received Apr 4 1888 The Athenaeum."
- Cited in:
- Topp, C.W. Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905, v. 3, 486
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