- Publication: Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World: Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West MunsterPublication Record # 558496
- Author: Jeremiah Curtin
- Date: 1895-00-00
- Publisher: David Nutt
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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: xii+198
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: NONFICTION
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Notes:
- 1st ed., simultaneous with the US or nearly so
- Format and price from listing as "Just Out" in publisher advertisement, The Academy #1200 (1895-05-04) p387; also "Mr. David Nutt's List", The Athenaeum #3524 (1895-05-11) p592: "Crown 8vo, 212 pages, cloth, uncut, 3s. 6d."
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 3 copies including one from Cornell U with original front cover: -- cover title, Tales of the Irish Fairies -- Preface, p[v]-ix, closes "Alfred Nutt" -- Contents, [xi]-xii, lists one introductory and 30 presumable tales (manual count) -- text spans p1-198 The introductory "Tales of the Fairies" closes, p5: : "After some preliminary conversation, the blind man began as follows:" Page 198 closes: : "Note--The tales from p. 156 to the end were told by Dyeermud Sheehy, a cartman for years between Killarney and Cahirciveen." (That is 4 of 30 tales, relying on the listed Contents.) There is no analogous note, pages 155/56.
- External IDs:
Nonfiction Title:
Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World: Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster • nonfiction by
Jeremiah Curtin
Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)
- v • Preface (Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World) • essay by Alfred Nutt
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