• Publication: The Light Princess and Other Fairy StoriesPublication Record # 613996
• Author: George MacDonald
• Date: 1890-00-00
• Publisher: Blackie & Son
• Price:
  2/-^?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: 192
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: 1st ed. evidently OCLC: "[1890?]", unusually informative -- "Crown 8co, cltoh, 2s." (Crown octavo?) -- "192, 32 pages [3] leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations ; 19 cm" (32-page publisher's catalog) Not found 2017-04-15 in automated search ('the light princess', 'other fairy stories') of newspapers 1889/1890 Year 1890 from Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), regarding the 5-story collection: "Dealings with the Fairies (coll 1867; cut as The Light Princess, and Other Fairy Stories, 1890)"
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 15150762

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Light Princess • juvenile • (1864) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Giant's Heart • (1863) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Golden Key • (1867) • novelette by George MacDonald