Nine Unlikely Tales for Children
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Overview:
- Title: Nine Unlikely Tales for Children
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Year: 1901
- Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
- Price: 6/-
- Pages: xiii+297
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Melisande, or Long and Short Division
- Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Publication date inferred from "Christmas Books" The Scotsman 1901-09-23 p3 "Already, while the leaves have hardly yet begun to fall, the 'Christmas book' ... has made its appearance ..."; this one of several reviewed in that column. Price from publisher advert "T. Fisher Unwin's Books. For Christmas Presents." Manchester Guardian 1901-12-17 p4
- Full cover image from Amazon UK 2017-03-07, as Unwin 1st ed. 1901, with others including title page that shows (three lines, all caps): Pictured by Claude Shepperson, H. R. Millar and Others, and with a frontispiece by A. L. Bowley and below unsigned illustration shows (three lines, no date): London T. Fisher Unwin Adelphi Terrace
- Probably the three stamped illustrations on back, spine, and front are three from 1st publications of the stories in magazines, separately illustrated by Shepperson, Millar, et al. (no joint work)