Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

Overview:

  • Title: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know
  • Author: Nora Archibald Smith, Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Year: 1942
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Doran
  • Price: $1.16
  • Pages: viii+317
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Bee, the Harp, the Mouse, and the Bum-Clock
  • Notes:
    • 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)".