The Sunken City and Other Tales from Round the World

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)