Notes
42 stories (Contents list, manual count)
This contains the first 42 of 49 stories in the 1909 anthology Tales of Wonder: A Fourth Fairy Book.
The known edition is a truncation at page 364.
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Published for the 1941 Christmas gift season
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What Every Child Should Know Library, 3rd series (set of six, others non-genre, see spine image and ASIN).
Price $1.08 represents $6.50 for the set, or $1 monthly for seven months.
--advertisement by The Parents' Institute, Inc., Parents' Magazine 1941-11
Subsequent advertisements note this 3rd series completed in November in 5000 sets, and announce the 2nd printing as ready 1942-01-10.
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This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #19461 (see).
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Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) report color frontispiece, uncredited, and report no other illustrations.
The Gutenberg ebook (HTML format) contains two images only: color frontispiece, not visibly signed, and b/w title page.