Title: Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard
Title Record # 1978355
Author: Eleanor Farjeon
Date: 1921-00-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Series: Martin Pippin
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Language: English
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Author: Eleanor Farjeon
Date: 1921-00-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Series: Martin Pippin
Webpages: babel.hathitrust.org
Language: English
Note:
- Collection of [6] linked stories, per Clute/Grant (see Series)
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides e-copies of the US ed. in its apparent 1st, 5th, 7th, and 8th printings. The latter provides a list of 1st to 8th printing dates, 1922 to 1933.
- 6 numbered Tales amid other named contents: Introduction; multi-part Prologue and Epilogue; Prelude, 5 numbered Interludes, and multi-part Postlude. Listings for the tales are formulated such as "The First Tale: The King's Barn" • The King's Barn • Young Gerard • The Mill of Dreams • Open Winkins • Proud Rosalind and the Hart-Royal • The Imprisoned Princess (as "The Sixth Tale: The Imprisoned Princess") --Contents, p.ix (1922 Stokes ed. viewed as e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library) That table of contents suggests page-lengths 25, 30, 35, 34, 36, and 4 for the six tales. The sixth tale does span p239-42 without illustration (no other examined).
Synopsis: "Martin Pippin tells six exquisite fairy tales to six love sick maidens immured in an orchard." They guard "heart broken princess Gillian" and are "weary of their long watch", so Martin entertains them.
Farjeon has produced "a thin fabric of exquisite finish".
--The Times of India 1922-02-15 p11
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard | 1921-11-00 | Eleanor Farjeon | W. Collins Sons | 7/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
xviii+ 369 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard | 1922-08-25 | Eleanor Farjeon | Frederick A. Stokes Company | $2.50?$: US dollar |
xvii+ 270 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel |