The Captain of the "Polestar" and other tales

 (co) London & NY: Longmans, Green, and Co.,

6 Mar 1890, xii+315(17)pp, hc;

Dedication by Arthur Conan Doyle, p VII:

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.

Preface by Arthur Conan Doyle, p IX:

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.