• Publication: An Introduction to IslandiaPublication Record # 676612
• Authors: Basil Davenport, Austin Tappan Wright
• Date: 1942-00-00
• Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart
• Price:
  $1.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 61
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • Presents Wright's fictional background material for his novel Islandia, as summarized (and potentially abridged) by Davenport.
  • The full title is An Introduction to Islandia: Its History, Custom, Laws, Language, and Geography, as Prepared by Basil Davenport from Islandia: History and Description, by Jean Perrier, First French Consul to Islandia; And Translated by John Lang, First American Consul.
  • This entry is for the initial printing.
  • Price from a review in Super Science Stories (November 1942).
  • Interior art credit per AbeBooks.
  • Data from OCLC, SFE3, AbeBooks and a review.
  • Per AbeBooks listing, this book has no title page & information usually on title page on the cover.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 42014079
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1314637
  • Reginald-1: 03837

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• An Introduction to Islandia • [Islandia] • novella by Basil Davenport and Austin Tappan Wright
•  An Introduction to Islandia • interior artwork by John Lang (I)