• Publication: Village Tales and Jungle TragediesPublication Record # 720066
• Author: B. M. Croker
• Date: 1896-04-30
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Price:
  2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 234
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  New edition Paper 2/-, cloth 2/6
  • Publication date and price from listing in full-page "Chatto & Windus's New Books" under heading "New Two-Shilling Novels", The Athenaeum #3573 1896-04-18 p528; this one as "[April 30." This one "may also be had in cloth, 2s 6d." (In the same-titled advertisement four weeks later, The Spectator #3542 1896-05-16 p724, this listing is not annotated, presumably available. And again, also in cloth, 2s 6d.)
  • Contents (except frontispiece) and page numbers are copied from the verified ISFDB record of the 1895 edition, same publisher and page count.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 154261030

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • A Free-Will Offering • (1895) • novelette by B. M. Croker
• 37 • "The Missus": A Dog Tragedy • (1895) • short story by B. M. Croker
• 63 • The Betrayal of Shere Bahadur • (1895) • short story by B. M. Croker
• 96 • "Proven or Not Proven?": The True Story of Naim Sing, Rajpoot • (1895) • short story by B. M. Croker
• 124 • An Outcast of the People • (1895) • short story by B. M. Croker
• 146 • An Appeal to the Gods • (1895) • short story by B. M. Croker
• 166 • Two Little Travellers • (1895) • novelette by B. M. Croker