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Publication: Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy Book

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  • Publication: Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy BookPublication Record # 738574
  • Editors: Nora Archibald Smith, Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Date: 1908-00-00
  • Publisher: The McClure Company
  • Pub. Series: McClure's Library of Children's Classics
  • Price:
    $1.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
  • Pages: xii+467
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed. of the anthology, unillustrated
    • This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #54734 (see).
    • Price from Doubleday, Page & Company panel advertisement "A Great Combined Holiday List", Chi. Tribune 1908-12-18 p9, which displays a central, highlighted button (quote):   McClure's Books including the works of more than 200 well-known authors   Now published by Doubleday, Page & Company Doubleday, Page uses the name "Children's Classics" here (later "The Children's Crimson Classics"), for books published by McClure as "McClure's Library of Children's Classics".
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover (crimson cloth with gold-stamped design): -- title page (with facing series list) Following the title leaf, the book contains Publisher's Note, poem by William Blake, Contents list (missing page xii), and stories -- no introductory poem or essay by Smith or Wiggin. -- stories span p3-467 -- 4 unnumbered back pages advertise this series alone, "McClure's Library ..." with secondary name "The Crimson Classics" (5 preceding anthologies).
    • Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) report xii+467 pages. Page [xii], containing the names and pages numbers for all stories after page 358, is missing (viewed at HathiTrust). The first begins on the facing page 3, which suggests that a leaf is missing (half-title as p[1-2]?).
  • External IDs:
Anthology Title: Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy Book • juvenile • [Library of Fairy Literature • 3] • anthology by Nora Archibald Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin

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