Tales of Wonder: A Fourth Fairy Book

Overview:

  • Title: Tales of Wonder: A Fourth Fairy Book
  • Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith
  • Year: 1909
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: xiv+440
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Amadan of the Dough
  • Notes:
    1st ed. of the anthology Unillustrated September publication stated on copyright page (below).

    Price from listing in two-page publisher advertisement, The Dial 1909-11-16 p354: "The third unique fairy book in the well-known Children's Classics ... Fixed price, $1.50 (postage 14c.)"

    Hathitrust Digital Library provides full view of 2 copies with original cover (crimson with gold stamped design): -- title page -- Publishers' Note, v-vi, acknowledges previous publications of many stories (see the anthology record) -- "I Wonder!", p.ix, poem by N.A.S. -- Introduction, p.xi-xiii -- stories span p3-440; no back material

    Front inside cover promotes the series, now in "crimson" terms. Frontispiece page lists the series, now as "The Children's Crimson Classics" (now 7), ed. Wiggin and Smith. That series name replaces "McClure's Library of Children's Classics" under which the first three story anthologies were issued. The "Library of Fairy Literature" (now 4), evidently distinguished as stories not verse, is a subset.