What-O'Clock Tales

Overview:

  • Title: What-O'Clock Tales
  • Author: Laurence Housman
  • Year: 1932
  • Publisher: Basil Blackwell
  • Price: 6/-
  • Pages: viii+225
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Green Bird
  • Notes: 1st ed. OCLC 913314335 has a description of cover (not jacket) OCLC 776817850 has list of Contents -- "Printed in Great Britain for Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd." Price from listing Manchester Guardian 1932-10-12 p5 "Books Received" Publ date inferred from that and October advertise/announce-ment of a US ed.

    Stella & Rose's Books (StellaBooks.com), Stock no. 1306705 as of 2016-12-13, provides list of Contents identical except:   "What-O'Clocks' (verse)" precedes the 15 items   "Tales of a Woodcutter" comprises 7 numbered sections(?) "Tales of a Woodcutter" (see that Title) is entered as a novelette by analogy to "The Bound Princess" (1898). UPDATE from USERNAME 08-04-2021: "Tales of a Woodcutter" is comprised of The Old Yew-Tree, The White-thorn's Story, The Wisdom of the Forest, The Wood-Fairies, The Wood-Find, The Happy Forest, and How the Waggoner filled His Sack. Updated info and contents' page numbers from photo seen on Richarddalbyslibrary.com.