The Sunken City and Other Tales from Round the World
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Overview:
- Title: The Sunken City and Other Tales from Round the World
- Author: James McNeill
- Year: 1959
- Publisher: Oxford University Press (Toronto)
- Price: C$3.00
- Pages: 160
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Sunken City and Other Tales from Round the World
- Notes: 1st ed.
20 "decorative drawings" by Theo Dimson, per review below.
Cover art for two Oxford UK eds. are color versions of the b/w frontispiece. Cover illustration of this ed. is presumed by Dimson, and probably from the same b/w drawing.
Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advert The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 1959-06-27 p16 --"a new collection of fairy tales from twenty countries", "ages 7 to 11" (and another under heading "Young Canada's Book Week" -11-14 p17) Reviewed in the same newspaper -08-15 p19
Frontispiece and title page image from Amazon US 2017-03-29 (as both "Hardcover – Import, 1959" and US publisher Walck, but title page confirms the former)