Nine Unlikely Tales

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Overview:

Title: Nine Unlikely Tales
Author: E. Nesbit
Year: 1960
Publisher: London: E. Benn; New York: Coward-McCann
Price: 12/6
Pages: x+297
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: Melisande, or Long and Short Division
Notes:
{{OCLC|1864677}}, with front flap Summary and list of Contents

Price from notice in The Guardian 1960-10-07 p16 "Fairies are Out" by Mary Stott (brief reviews of new children's books). No other hit 2017-03-09 for title in UK/US newspapers 1960. Only 1961 hit Chi. Tribune 1961-11-12 pE47: Coward-McCann thus "bring to a total of 16 the number of author's books in print in this country" (no $ price).

Data from e-copy at Archive.org (interior only) Title page gives short title, credits Nesbit and two illustrators only, and shows (four lines, all caps): Ernest Benn Limited London Coward – McCann Inc New York Illustrations, p[ix]-x, lists 26 by caption, no credits. Stories span p3-197 with plates included in the pagination. p[198] (three lines): "Printed in Great Britain by // Neill & Co. Limited // Edinburgh".