Famous Stories Every Child Should Know

Overview:

• Title: Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
• Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Year: 1937
• Publisher: Doubleday, Doran
• Price: $1.08
• Pages: 300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: A Child's Dream of a Star
• Notes:
  Published for the 1937 Christmas gift season
  
  What Every Child Should Know Library (set of six; later as 1st series) Price $1.08 represents $6.50 for the set, or $1 monthly for seven months. --advertisement by The Parents' Institute, Inc., Parents' Magazine 1937-12 p115: "gay red cloth with a picture in full color inlaid on the front cover; colored frontispiece, t.p., decorative endpapers"
  
  Some data are from Project Gutenberg Ebook #16247 (see at ISFDB).
  
  This is the source edition for Gutenberg #16247, which contains images of the frontispiece and title page, as well as transcripts of the title leaf (two pages). No date. Title page (quote): Published by 'Doubleday, Doran and Co., for The Parents' Institute, Inc. Publisher's of "The Parents' Magazine"' T.p. verso (quote): Copyright, 1907, by Doubleday, Page & Company
  
  Fiction contents listed below (7 of 11 in the anthology) are those in the database as contents of other publications (September 2019).
  
  Cover image is from Amazon.com product page {{ASIN|B07GVNT6HN}} as of 2019-10-21, as that of a 2018 Kindle Edition --probably from the Gutenberg ebook in turn. This matches the known undated title page viewed at HathiTrust or Project Gutenberg.