• Publication: The Fairy Tales of George MacdonaldPublication Record # 720956
• Author: George MacDonald
• Date: 1924-05-00
• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
• Price:
  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: 435
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • "Centenary edition" This is a reprint, during the centennial year of MacDonald's birth, of the 1920 reissue of the 1904 Fifield edition. (OCLC 1008482093 states "Originally published in 1867" in mistaken reference to Dealing with the Fairies, which contains only 5 of the 8 stories, and 12 full-page illustrations by Hughes.)
  • Library records abbreviate the title. The full 1904 title, including lead article "The", is displayed in the header of the Morrell review.
  • List of Contents is from the 2006 Dover "unabridged republication" of the 1920 edition, The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales (see).
  • Library records (BL and OCLC, below) report 435 pages and: -- edited by Greville Macdonald -- title page and 13 illustrations by Arthur Hughes This identifies the edition as a reissue of the 1904 Fifield.
  • Price is from "A Mountain of a Man", The Spectator Lit. Suppl. 1924-10-18 p560, a review by Philip Morrell of three Allen & Unwin publications this year.
  • May publication inferred (and price stated) from The Scotsman 1924-05-24, "Books Received", listing of Lilith and Fairy Tales as "Centenary editions, with prefaces by the writer's son Dr Greville Macdonald." --taken in context of major coverage in the same issue, p6 "George MacDonald: A Centenary Biography", and in other publications this week, of the son's joint biography George MacDonald and His Wife (George Allen & Unwin, 21/-), a new work.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 002309875
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 561806654 1008482093 250364969

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Fairy Tales of George Macdonald • (1904) • interior artwork by Arthur Hughes
• Preface (The Fairy Tales of George Macdonald) • (1904) • essay by Greville MacDonald
• 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
• The Shadows • (1864) • novelette by George MacDonald
• Little Daylight • (1871) • short story by George MacDonald
• Cross Purposes • (1862) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Carasoyn • (1871) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Day Boy and the Night Girl • (1879) • novelette by George MacDonald (variant of The History of Photogen and Nycteris: A Day and Night Mährchen)