• Publication: The Fairy Spinning WheelPublication Record # 354597
• Author:
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
• Date: 1899-00-00
• Publisher: Richard G. Badger
• Price:
  $1.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 146
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: The Fairy Spinning Wheel (1898) • by Marion L. Peabody
• Webpages: archive.org
• Notes:

  • Quarto. Translated from the French by Thomas J. Vivian. Fourteen full-page illustrations. Full title: The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it Spun.
  • Data, including price, from Publishers' Weekly #1455, Dec. 16, 1899. An ad in Book Reviews V.6(6), Dec. 1898, claims the price is $2.00 (both prices refer to a cloth edition).
  • This edition constitutes a selection of 14 stories from the original 24 of the French collection Les contes du rouet.

  Contents' page numbers from Archive.org copy. Artist's signature on the lower right corner of the back cover.

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 9 • A Word of Introduction (The Fairy Spinning Wheel) • essay by Thomas J. Vivian
• 13 • The Sleeping Beauty • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of La Belle au bois rêvant 1885)
• 23 • The Three Sowers • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of Les trois semeurs 1885)
• 33 • The Princess Birdie • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of La princesse oiselle 1885)
• 43 • The Mirror • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of Le miroir 1885)
• 53 • Snowheart • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of
  La belle au cœur de neige^?La belle au coeur de neige
  1885)
• 63 • The Fatal Wish • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of
  Le vœu maladroit^?Le voeu maladroit
  1885)
• 73 • A Poor Diet • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of Le mauvais convive 1885)
• 81 • The Money-Box • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of La tirelire 1885)
• 91 • A Wonderful Attraction • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of Isoline-Isolin 1885)
• 101 • The Lame Angel • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of L'ange boiteux 1885)
• 109 • The Two Daisies • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of Les deux marguerites 1885)
• 119 • The Dear Departed • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of
  La mémoire du cœur^?La mémoire du coeur
  1885)
• 129 • Lord Roland's Grief • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of Les larmes sur l'épée 1885)
• 139 • The Last of the Fairies • (1898) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of La dernière fée 1885)