• Publication: The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English LanguagePublication Record # 472269
• Editors: Van H. Cartmell, Charles Grayson
• Date: 1947-00-00
• Publisher: The Dial Press
• Pages: 656
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • Presumed first edition, no printing statement listed.
  • The paperback printing only reprints twenty-five of the forty stories printed in the hardcover.
  • Every story is preceded by a short biographical paragraph about the author of the story.
  • Only fiction known to be relevant to this site are listed, there be others. A complete listing of this book's contents can be found on one of the OCLC sites.
  • If his Wiki site is correct, editor Charles Grayson is not the prolific writer of archery non-fiction.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 47011514
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 612621288

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 21 • The Happy Hypocrite • (1896) • novelette by Max Beerbohm
• 43 • The Devil and Daniel Webster • (1936) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
• 56 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 91 • Back for Christmas • non-genre • (1939) • short story by John Collier
• 122 • The Bar Sinister • (1902) • novelette by Richard Harding Davis
• 147 • The Red-Headed League • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1891) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by A. Conan Doyle]
• 167 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 223 • The Celestial Omnibus • (1908) • short story by E. M. Forster
• 304 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 313 • The Man Who Would Be King • (1888) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 453 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 481 • The Gold-Bug • non-genre • (1843) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 521 • Tobermory • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 541 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 571 • The Lady, or the Tiger? • (1939) • short story by Frank R. Stockton (variant of The Lady or the Tiger? 1882)
• 606 • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty • non-genre • (1939) • short story by James Thurber
• 617 • The Other Wise Man • (1902) • novelette by Henry van Dyke (variant of The Story of the Other Wise Man 1896)