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Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith

First published 1942
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"
  • 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)".