The Flying Carpet
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Overview:
- Title: The Flying Carpet
- Author: Cynthia Asquith
- Year: 1925
- Publisher: S. W. Partridge & Co.
- Price: 6/-
- Pages: 200+[4]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: The Flying Carpet
- Notes: Known speculative fiction (prose) contents alone listed below.
Contents (3 in sequence with page numbers) copied 2016-12-30 from ISFDB record of 1st US ed. (1925) (in turn, viewed online) because the two eds. have identical reported page-counts and lists of contents.
Price from review column Manchester Guardian 1925-12-02 pIX "Christmas Books: Mainly for Children" (about 25); this one as "designed by Cynthia Asquith". Otherwise not found 2017-04-06 in automated search of UK newspapers 1925.
OCLC: -- "200 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (4 col.) ; 26 cm." (US ed. shows 4 plates color, may be mounted) -- Contents, list of 34 by 24 writers -- "Designed [and edited] by Cynthia Asquith" -- Summary and Abstract identically state: "An anthology of prose and verse for children, with illustrations by Mabel Lucie, Attwell [sic], [14 others]." OCLC list of illustrators is alphabetical. OCLC list of Contents groups multiple titles by writer together, with writers in sequence of their first appearances in the book (from comparison with the US ed. table of contents, viewed online).