The Mary Frances Story Book, or Adventures Among the Story People

Overview:

  • Title: The Mary Frances Story Book, or Adventures Among the Story People
  • Author: Jane Eayre Fryer
  • Year: 1921
  • Publisher: John C. Winston Co.
  • Price: $2.00
  • Pages: 328
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Mary Frances Story Book, or Adventures Among the Story People
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • Year uncertain: • from HDL digital copy: t.p. undated, (c) 1921, one front page inscribed "Xmas 1922 ..." • Library of Congress catalog number (LCCN, below) "22-2052" shows that it was assigned in 1922
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of one copy with original cover -- front page list of Books by JEF shows 7 Mary Frances books and no others, $2.00 each except one $1.25 -- title page illustrated, undated -- t.p. verso: (c) 1921 the publisher, "Entered at Stationers' Hall, London"
    • As of 2017-12-17, that HDL file contains full views of three publications, perhaps digitized in one file by mistake. All are digitized by Google from items at Harvard University. • "Merry Little People" • The Mary Frances Story Book • The Boy Mechanic, Book 3 The file begins with one image of the Mary Frances front cover, which is repeated (and linked above) in the middle of the file, where the full view of Mary Frances begins.
    • Cover artist from legible signature (viewed at HDL and Amazon); supported by a brief review of the 1st UK ed. in The Field 1923-11-08 p679, "... the cover design being by C. M. Burd".
    • Cover image is that provided for ASIN B000882N4A at Amazon UK (not US) as of 2018-03-18 (as "Hardcover – 1921", "John C. Winston (1921)").   Amazon US now provides for this ASIN (same quoted data) a link to file 513j8347l9L.jpg, an image that presumably fits the US-only blurb "reproduction of a book published before 1923". Its front cover design matches that at HDL (linked above), same as that linked from Amazon UK except gold trim and relief.   Perhaps the 1st ed. 1st printing has a plain cover without gold trim or relief, and paste-on cover illustration, as the HDL image may suggest.