The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales
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Overview:
- Title: The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Year: 1881
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Price: $2.50
- Pages: 199
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Castle of Bim
- Notes:
- 1st ed.
- {{LCCN|04-16156}} -- "black- and gold-stamped illustrations, illustrated endpapers" (no attribution)
- {{OCLC|51059998}} -- illustrator credit from Note, "The frontispiece is signed E.B. Bensell and the majority of the other 39 illustrations are signed by his B." (supported by previous publication of 1st and 2nd stories as illustrated by E.B. Bensell)
- Contents (10 stories in sequence) from {{OCLC|163624106}}, library record of 1890 UK ed. with same page-count 199 and illustration-count 40
- Publ date and price from advertisement N-Y Tribune 1881-11-01 p6 "Chas. Scribner's Sons Publish This Day", this one 3rd of 4 (earliest hit for short title in search of multiple newspapers)
- Unknown source for October 1881 publ date of 7th and 9th stories