Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know
| First published | 1942 |
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| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Anthology |
| Cover art | Elizabeth MacKinstry |
| Pages | viii+317 |
| Price | $1.16 |
Notes
39 stories (Contents list, manual count)
This contains the first 39 of 63 stories in 1906 anthology The Fairy Ring.
The known edition is a truncation at page 317, including the frontispiece and first 17 of 24 interior illustrations by Elizabeth MacKinstry, from 1910 and later editions.
- Undated Published for the 1942 Christmas gift season Published by Doubleday, Doran for The Parents' Institute
- What Every Child Should Know Library, 4th series (set of six, others non-genre) Price $1.16 represents $7.00 for the set, or $1 monthly for eight months. --advertisement by The Parents' Institute, Inc., Parents' Magazine 1942-12 p103 "not numbered so the set of six can be used for one gift or six"
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HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover:
-- title page (facing blank page; probable frontispiece plate missing)
Cover illustration is that of the frontispiece plate in The Fairy Ring, illustrated 1910 by MacKinstry. - Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports "viii p., 2 l., 317 p. incl. col. front. plates." WorldCat (OCLC) reports "viii, 317 pages : illustrations (1 color)".