Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy Book
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Overview:
- Title: Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy Book
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
- Year: 1908
- Publisher: The McClure Company
- Price: $1.50
- Pages: xii+467
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet
- Notes:
- 1st ed. of the anthology, unillustrated
- This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #54734 (see).
- Price from Doubleday, Page & Company panel advertisement "A Great Combined Holiday List", Chi. Tribune 1908-12-18 p9, which displays a central, highlighted button (quote): McClure's Books including the works of more than 200 well-known authors Now published by Doubleday, Page & Company Doubleday, Page uses the name "Children's Classics" here (later "The Children's Crimson Classics"), for books published by McClure as "McClure's Library of Children's Classics".
- HathiTruust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover (crimson cloth with gold-stamped design): -- title page (with facing series list) Following the title leaf, the book contains Publisher's Note, poem by William Blake, Contents list (missing page xii), and stories -- no introductory poem or essay by Smith or Wiggin. -- stories span p3-467 -- 4 unnumbered back pages advertise this series alone, "McClure's Library ..." with secondary name "The Crimson Classics" (5 preceding anthologies).
- Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) report xii+467 pages. Page [xii], containg the names and pages numbers for all stories after page 358, is missing (viewed at HathiTrust). The first begins on the facing page 3, which suggests that a leaf is missing (half-title as p[1-2]?).