• Publication: The House FairiesPublication Record # 621908
• Author: Marion St. John Webb
• Date: 1925-00-00
• Publisher: Modern Art Society
• Price:
  2/0^?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: 40
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: The House Fairies by Margaret W. Tarrant
• Notes:

  • Cover title: "House Fairies"; Title page: "The House Fairies".
  • Each poem begins with a title page, a blank page, a full-page, full-color illustration, and then a 2-3 page poem, which generally also contains 2-3 b&w drawings. The illustration for the first poem is moved to become the frontispiece for the book.
  • The cover is the same as the image for the poem "Round the Corner".
  • The back of the dust jacket contains a listing of 12 additional Fairie books, "Uniform with this Volume". The price for each volume is listed as "2s. each". The verification copy, which is a 2nd impression, has this price overstruck with several red lines, and a new price "1s. 6d" overprinted. We have listed the original price with this record.
  • Wikipedia lists the same Fairie books as shown on the dust jacket, albeit in a different order.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 781516232

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 5 • For Sale • poem by Marion St. John Webb
• 9 • The Fairy Under the Doormat • poem by Marion St. John Webb
• 15 • Cheese Rind • poem by Marion St. John Webb
• 23 • Looking-Glass Fairies • poem by Marion St. John Webb
• 29 • Round the Corner • poem by Marion St. John Webb
• 35 • The Picture on the Wall • poem by Marion St. John Webb