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''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.<br />
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== Stories ==<br />
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* [[#Dedication|Dedication]] by Arthur Conan Doyle<br />
* [[#Preface|Preface]] by Arthur Conan Doyle<br />
* [[The Captain of the "Pole-Star"]]<br />
* [[J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement]]<br />
* [[The Great Keinplatz Experiment]]<br />
* [[The Man from Archangel]]<br />
* [[That Little Square Box]]<br />
* [[John Huxford's Hiatus]]<br />
* [[Cyprian Overbeck Wells. A Literary Mosaic|A Literary Mosaic]]<br />
* [[John Barrington Cowles]]<br />
* [[The Parson of Jackman's Gulch]]<br />
* [[The Ring of Thoth]]<br />
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== Editions ==<br />
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* ''The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales'' (6 march 1890, [[Longmans, Green & Co.]] [UK/US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales'' (april 1890, [[Longmans, Green & Co.]] [US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales'' (august 1891, [[Bernhard Tauchnitz]] No. 2762 [DE])<br />
* ''Captain of the Pole Star'' (1891, [[Homewood Publishing Co.]] [US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the "Pole-Star"'' (1894-1896, [[George Munro's Sons]] ''Library of Popular Novels No. 167'' [US])<br />
* ''Captain of the Pole Star'' (1895, [[Homewood Publishing Co.]] [US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales'' (1895-1897, [[E. A. Weeks & Co.]] ''Marguerite series'' No. 43 [US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the "Pole-Star"'' (1896, [[George Munro's Sons]] ''Seaside Library No. 2077'' [US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales'' (october 1896, [[Longmans, Green & Co.]] ''colonial'' [UK/US]) 1 front. by [[Charles Kerr]]<br />
* ''The Captain of the "Pole-Star"'' (1900, [[George Munro's Sons]] ''Savoy series No. 220'' [US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the "Pole-Star"'' (1900, [[George Munro's Sons]] ''Majestic series No. 59'' [US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the "Pole-Star"'' (1900, [[George Munro's Sons]] ''Crescent edition'' [US])<br />
* ''The Captain of the Pole-Star'' (1900, [[Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.]] [UK])<br />
* ''Le Capitaine de "l'Étoile-Polaire"'' (1907, [[Jules Tallandier]] [FR]) ''6 short stories only''<br />
* ''The Captain of the Polestar'' (1912, [[Smith, Elder & Co.]] [UK])<br />
* in ''[[The Crowborough Edition of the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]'' vol. 23 (1930, [[Doubleday & McClure Co.|Doubleday, Doran & Co.]] [US])<br />
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== Covers ==<br />
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File:longmans-1st-edition-1890-polestar.jpg|[[Longmans, Green & Co.]] (1890)<br />
File:longmans-green-1890-captain-polestar-titlepage.jpg|[[Longmans, Green & Co.]] title page (1890)<br />
File:bq_homewood_1891_polestar.jpg|[[Homewood Publishing Co.]] (1891)<br />
File:longmans-green-1892-colonial-captain-polestar-titlepage.jpg|[[Longmans, Green & Co.]] title page (1892)<br />
File:longmans-green-1893-colonial-captain-polestar.jpg|[[Longmans, Green & Co.]] (1893)<br />
File:longmans-green-1893-colonial-captain-polestar-frontispiece.jpg|[[Longmans, Green & Co.]] frontispiece (1893)<br />
File:longmans-green-1893-colonial-captain-polestar-titlepage.jpg|[[Longmans, Green & Co.]] title page (1893)<br />
File:longmans-green-1894-colonial-captain-polestar-titlepage.jpg|[[Longmans, Green & Co.]] title page (1894)<br />
File:e-a-weeks-1895-01-01-marguerite-series-43-the-captain-of-the-polestar-and-other-tales.jpg|[[E. A. Weeks & Co.]] (1895)<br />
File:captain-polestar-1895-homewood.jpg|[[Homewood Publishing Co.]] (1895)<br />
File:e-a-weeks-werner-library-1896-the-captain-of-the-polestar.jpg|[[E. A. Weeks & Co.]] (1896-1897)<br />
File:George-munro-crescent-edition-1900-the-captain-of-the-polestar.jpg|[[George Munro's Sons]] (''Crescent edition'', 1900)<br />
File:jules-tallandier-1907-le-capitaine-de-l-etoile-polaire.jpg|[[Jules Tallandier]] (1907 [FR])<br />
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== Dedication ==<br />
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''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)<br />
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== Preface ==<br />
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''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.''<br />
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