• 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
• 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
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• 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:
  • BL: 000840280
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 870505186 619481736 54871163

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• v • Preface (Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World) • essay by Alfred Nutt