More Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know
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Overview:
- Title: More Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
- Year: 1946
- Publisher: Keep-Worthy Books
- Price: $1.16
- Pages: x+293
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: More Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know
- Notes:
- Published early in 1946 Other sets were published for the annual Christmas gift season, and advertised in Parents' Magazine no later than the December issue.
- What Every Child Should Know Library, 6th series (set of six, others non-genre) Price $1.16 represents $7.00 for the set, or $1 monthly for eight months. --advertisement by Keep-Worth Books, Inc., Parents' Magazine 1946-01 p120; as "the new 1946 series"
- WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports "x, 293 pages : 1 color illustrations". A color frontispiece, not credited in the book, is expected from the example of other titles in the publication series.
- Probably this set missed the 1945 Christmas gift season, awaiting establishment of its book publishing subsidiary Keep-Worthy Books by The Parents' Institute. Automated search of Parents' Magazine returns no hit for the publisher prior to 1946-01, where its street address 52 Vanderbilt Avenue matches that of The Parents' Institute in earlier advertisements of this series, and on some series title pages viewed online.