The Phoenix and the Carpet

Overview:

  • Title: The Phoenix and the Carpet
  • Author: E. Nesbit
  • Year: 1949
  • Publisher: Coward-McCann
  • Price: $2.75
  • Pages: 328
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Phoenix and the Carpet
  • Notes: Not found 2017-02-26 in WorldCat library records 2017-02 Publ date (and publisher) from contemporary review by Kirkus posted 2012 with later cover image, page-count, ISBN) Price from publisher advert "The Best Books for the Child You Love Best" N-Y Herald Tribune 1949-12-04 pE34 (this series as Vol. I, II, III "of the Magic Tales by E. Nesbit") Page-count from 1st ed. by analogy to books 1 and 3, issued 1948/1949 by Benn and Coward-McCann with identical page-counts per WorldCat

    Cover artist probably Goodall, whose work was used on the cover of the 1960 Looking Glass Library ed. of the sequel, with his interior illustrations (ISFDB states).