The Princess and the Goblin

Overview:

  • Title: The Princess and the Goblin
  • Author: George MacDonald
  • Year: 1928
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Doran
  • Price: $2.50
  • Pages: viii+271
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Princess and the Goblin
  • Notes:
    New edition "with illustrations and decorations by Elizabeth MacKinstry" Size 23 cm

    Price from listing in the publisher's "Children's Book Week junior books", NYHT 1928-11-11 pJ28. The book must have been available for the mid-November Children's Book Week; may have been published early in the Autumn season.

    "The Goblin Cat and His French Relations" by the illustrator {{a|Dorothy P. Lathrop}}, NY Herald Tribune 1928-12-09 pJ8, is a full review of this and d'Aulnoy, The White Cat and Other Old French Fairy Tales, introduced and illustrated by MacKinstry (see). This full page article in the Sunday NYHT Books (newsprint) contains several small illustrations from the books.

    "illustrations (some color)" --OCLC The other book reviewed is a large format (29 cm) published by Macmillan, which contains full-page color plates and numerous small b/w drawings (viewed at HathiTrust). This book may be the same, except in size.