• Publication: These Little OnesPublication Record # 759628
• Author: E. Nesbit
• Date: 1909-04-00
• Publisher: George Allen & Sons
• Price:
  3/6^?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).
• Pages: 210
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • Publication date and price from listings in newspapers/magazines 1909-04-24 ("This Weeks Books", Saturday Review p540; "Publications of the Week", The Spectator p674) and -05-01 ("Books Received", The Academy p67). Crown octavo; 3/6 net.
  • Victorian Women Writers Project provides a digital edition of the interior: • with representations of the print title page and page numbers • without images or indicators of illustrations or other decorations
  • WorldCat library records (two OCLC, below) report 209 and 324 pages, no other discrepancies. The latter suggests existence of another edition, perhaps published later as copyright (c)1909. But WorldCat records report no publications between 1909 and 2004 (none found 2020-02-02).
• External IDs:
  • BL: 002622271
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 16151351 709694592

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  These Little Ones • (1909) • interior artwork by Spencer Pryse
• 3 • The Three Mothers • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 25 • John of the Island • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 47 • The Ashpits • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 65 • How Jake Went Home • (1907) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 91 • The Dog-Dream • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 107 • The Criminal • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 121 • The Left-Handed Sword • juvenile • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 139 • Thor and the Hammer • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 167 • The Little Chap • (1907) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 183 • Lucy • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit