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Publication: The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales

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  • Publication: The Floating Prince and Other Fairy TalesPublication Record # 261180
  • Author: Frank R. Stockton
  • Date: 1881-11-01
  • Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Price:
    $2.50?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 199
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales (1881) • by E. B. Bensell
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • LCCN 04-16156 -- "black- and gold-stamped illustrations, illustrated endpapers" (no attribution)
    • OCLC 51059998 -- illustrator credit from Note, "The frontispiece is signed E.B. Bensell and the majority of the other 39 illustrations are signed by his B." (supported by previous publication of 1st and 2nd stories as illustrated by E.B. Bensell)
    • Contents (10 stories in sequence) from OCLC 163624106, library record of 1890 UK ed. with same page-count 199 and illustration-count 40
    • Publ date and price from advertisement N-Y Tribune 1881-11-01 p6 "Chas. Scribner's Sons Publish This Day", this one 3rd of 4 (earliest hit for short title in search of multiple newspapers)
    • Unknown source for October 1881 publ date of 7th and 9th stories
  • External IDs:
Collection Title: The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales • (1881) • collection by Frank R. Stockton

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