Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know

Overview:

  • Title: Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
  • Author: Nora Archibald Smith, Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Year: 1941
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Doran
  • Price: $1.08
  • Pages: xiii+364
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Amadan of the Dough
  • Notes:
    • Published for the 1941 Christmas gift season
    • What Every Child Should Know Library, 3rd series (set of six, others non-genre, see spine image and ASIN). Price $1.08 represents $6.50 for the set, or $1 monthly for seven months. --advertisement by The Parents' Institute, Inc., Parents' Magazine 1941-11 Subsequent advertisements note this 3rd series completed in November in 5000 sets, and announce the 2nd printing as ready 1942-01-10.
    • This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #19461 (see).
    • Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) report color frontispiece, uncredited, and report no other illustrations. The Gutenberg ebook (HTML format) contains two images only: color frontispiece, not visibly signed, and b/w title page.