In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales

Overview:

  • Title: In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales
  • Author: Abbie Farwell Brown
  • Year: 1902
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Price: $1.10
  • Pages: 259+[6]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: In the Days of Giants
  • Notes:
    • Stated: "Published April, 1902"
    • First edition
    • "Retold fron Edda Snorra Sturlusonar." (Edda of Snorri Sturluson; the Prose Edda, or Younger Edda)
    • "Six of these tales are reprinted from The Churchman"
    • Digital copy at HDL provides full view including cover -- cover green cloth, black lettering, black and gold illustration; the latter signed "E. B. S." -- title page large red colophon: The Riverside Press, Cambridge -- (also) "Houghton, Mifflin and Co." // "Boston and New York 1902" -- copyright page: Published April, 1902 -- one front page acknowledges 6 tales reprinted from The Churchman -- Contents, 16 numbered tales ("tales" per subtitle and acknowledgment) -- Illustrations, 6 including frontispiece (full-page b/w signed "E. BOYD SMITH", plates not included in pagination) -- text spans p[1]-259 -- p[260]: "The Riverside Press // Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. // Cambridge [...]"
    • Reviewed in "Fiction" The Sun (Baltimore) 1902-05-22 p8; this one unsigned, positive -- "7-1/4x5, pp. 259. Illus. $1.10" -- "Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston"
    • LCCN links e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL),
    • OCLC contains a list of Contents