The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales

Longmans, Green & Co. (1890)

The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales is a volume collecting 10 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published by Longmans, Green & Co. on 6 march 1890.

Stories

• Dedication by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Preface by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Captain of the "Pole-Star"
• J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
• The Great Keinplatz Experiment
• The Man from Archangel
• That Little Square Box
• John Huxford's Hiatus
• A Literary Mosaic
• John Barrington Cowles
• The Parson of Jackman's Gulch
• The Ring of Thoth

Editions

• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (6 march 1890, Longmans, Green & Co. [UK/US])
• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (april 1890, Longmans, Green & Co. [US])
• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (august 1891, Bernhard Tauchnitz No. 2762 [DE])
• Captain of the Pole Star (1891, Homewood Publishing Co. [US])
• The Captain of the "Pole-Star" (1894-1896, George Munro's Sons Library of Popular Novels No. 167 [US])
• Captain of the Pole Star (1895, Homewood Publishing Co. [US])
• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (1895-1897, E. A. Weeks & Co. Marguerite series No. 43 [US])
• The Captain of the "Pole-Star" (1896, George Munro's Sons Seaside Library No. 2077 [US])
• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (october 1896, Longmans, Green & Co. colonial [UK/US]) 1 front. by Charles Kerr
• The Captain of the "Pole-Star" (1900, George Munro's Sons Savoy series No. 220 [US])
• The Captain of the "Pole-Star" (1900, George Munro's Sons Majestic series No. 59 [US])
• The Captain of the "Pole-Star" (1900, George Munro's Sons Crescent edition [US])
• The Captain of the Pole-Star (1900, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. [UK])
• Le Capitaine de "l'Étoile-Polaire" (1907, Jules Tallandier [FR]) 6 short stories only
• The Captain of the Polestar (1912, Smith, Elder & Co. [UK])
• in The Crowborough Edition of the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle vol. 23 (1930, Doubleday, Doran & Co. [US])

Covers

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  Longmans, Green & Co. (1890)
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  Longmans, Green & Co. title page (1890)
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  Homewood Publishing Co. (1891)
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  Longmans, Green & Co. title page (1892)
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  Longmans, Green & Co. (1893)
• 
  Longmans, Green & Co. frontispiece (1893)
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  Longmans, Green & Co. title page (1893)
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  Longmans, Green & Co. title page (1894)
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  E. A. Weeks & Co. (1895)
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  Homewood Publishing Co. (1895)
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  E. A. Weeks & Co. (1896-1897)
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  George Munro's Sons (Crescent edition, 1900)
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  Jules Tallandier (1907 [FR])

Dedication

To my friend Major-General A. W. Drayson as a slight token of my admiration for his great and as yet unrecognised services to astronomy this little volume is dedicated. (in Longmans, 1890 & Hodder, 1900)

Preface

For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the proprietors of "Cornhill," "Temple Bar," "Belgravia," "London Society," "Cassell's," and "The Boy's Own Paper." A. Conan Doyle, M.D.

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