Publication: Nine Unlikely Tales for Children

Publication: Nine Unlikely Tales for ChildrenPublication Record # 88895
Author: E. Nesbit
Date: 1901-09-00
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Price:
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: xiii+297
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Cover: Nine Unlikely Tales for Children (1901) • by H. R. Millar and Claude A. Shepperson
Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Publication date inferred from "Christmas Books" The Scotsman 1901-09-23 p3 "Already, while the leaves have hardly yet begun to fall, the 'Christmas book' ... has made its appearance ..."; this one of several reviewed in that column. Price from publisher advert "T. Fisher Unwin's Books. For Christmas Presents." Manchester Guardian 1901-12-17 p4
- Full cover image from Amazon UK 2017-03-07, as Unwin 1st ed. 1901, with others including title page that shows (three lines, all caps): Pictured by Claude Shepperson, H. R. Millar and Others, and with a frontispiece by A. L. Bowley and below unsigned illustration shows (three lines, no date): London T. Fisher Unwin Adelphi Terrace
- Probably the three stamped illustrations on back, spine, and front are three from 1st publications of the stories in magazines, separately illustrated by Shepperson, Millar, et al. (no joint work)
External IDs:
- ASIN: B00HM99R56 AU BR CA CN DE ES FR IN IT JP MX NL TR UAE UK US (US/UK earn commissions)

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Collection Title: Nine Unlikely Tales for Children • juvenile • (1901) • collection by E. Nesbit

Contents (view Concise Listing)

Nine Unlikely Tales for Children • (1901) • interior artwork by H. R. Millar
Nine Unlikely Tales for Children • interior artwork by Claude A. Shepperson [as by Claude Shepperson]
Nine Unlikely Tales for Children • interior artwork by A. L. Bowley
The Cockatoucan • juvenile • (1900) • novelette by E. Nesbit
Whereyouwantogoto • juvenile • (1901) • short story by E. Nesbit (variant of Whereyouwantogoto; or, The Bouncible Ball 1899)
The Blue Mountain • juvenile • (1901) • short story by E. Nesbit
The Prince, Two Mice, and Some Kitchen-Maids • juvenile • (1896) • short story by E. Nesbit
Melisande, or Long and Short Division • juvenile • (1900) • short story by E. Nesbit
Fortunatus Rex & Co. • juvenile • (1901) • short story by E. Nesbit
The Sums That Came Right • juvenile • (1901) • short story by E. Nesbit
The Town in the Library, in the Town in the Library • juvenile • (1901) • short story by E. Nesbit
The Plush Usurper • juvenile • (1901) • short story by E. Nesbit

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Clute/Nicholls	N/A	SGale	2014-09-28 06:43:40
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Publication: Nine Unlikely Tales for Children

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

Secondary Verifications