The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Saga

Overview:

  • Title: The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Saga
  • Author: Ella Young
  • Year: 1929
  • Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
  • Price: $3.50
  • Pages: 186
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Saga
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • Publ date from listing NY Herald Tribune 1929-09-08 pJ26 "Books of the Week"
    • Reviewed by Agatha L. Shea (children's librarian, Chicago PL) Chi. Tribune -09-21 p14 "Children Get Erin's Legends ..." (very positive; see Container Title)
    • Price from capsule review by {{a|Anne Carroll Moore}} in weekly column "The Three Owls" NYHT -09-29 pK8
    • Library of Congress (LCCN, below, as "New York, Toronto") gives LC subject headings, first "Finn MacCumhaill, active 3rd century--Legends."
    • Contents list of 14 story titles is provided by one WorldCat library record of the 1967 David McKay edition (same page-count, size, illustrator), {{OCLC|1403902}}.
    • Amazon.com 2018-03-08 provides as 1st edition, apparent 1st printing, images of both the jacket (B000HEE5XM) and book (B000F1UMHU), the latter with description of both cover and interior art: "Black hard back with silver gilt Celtic knots on spine, silver gilt decoration on front of book; 13 full-page illustrated plates; red and white doublespread art-deco end papers front and back."