• Publication: Silver MagicPublication Record # 878026
• Editor: Romer Wilson
• Date: 1929-00-00
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Price:
  7/6^?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: 432
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: 2nd of Wilson's 'Magic' anthologies. How the Sea Became Salt is not the Asbjørnsen & Moe fairy tale but a story from the Prose Edda.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Silver Magic • interior artwork by Violet Brunton
• 9 • Introduction: On Giants and Dwarfs • essay by Romer Wilson
• 17 • The Miraculous Pitcher • (1851) • short fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 36 • Simmerwater: A Yorkshire Philemon • (unknown) • short story by Anonymous
• 41 • The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche • [Cupid and Psyche] • (unknown) • short story by Apuleius [as by Lucius Apuleius]
• 69 • The Werewolf • (unknown) • short story by Petronius
• 73 • Eight Tales from Gesta Romanorum • (1824) • short fiction by Rev. Charles Swan
• 85 • The Pleasant History of Reynard the Fox • (1826) • novel by uncredited (trans. of Reineke Fuchs unknown)
• 161 • The Goose-Girl at the Well • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 179] • (1846) • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen 1843) [as by Grimm]
• 173 • Clever Alice • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 34] • (1846) • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Die kluge Else 1819) [as by Grimm]
• 179 • Lohengrin • (unknown) • short story by Anonymous
• 183 • The Master-Thief • [Norske Folkeeventyr • 34] • (unknown) • short story by
  Peter Asbjørnsen^?Peter Asbjoernsen
  and
  Jørgen Moe^?Jorgen Moe
  (trans. of Mestertyven 1843) [as by Anonymous]
• 203 • Boots Who Had an Eating-Match with the Troll • [Norske Folkeeventyr • 6] • short story by
  Peter Asbjørnsen^?Peter Asbjoernsen
  and
  Jørgen Moe^?Jorgen Moe
  (trans. of Askeladden som kappåt med trollet 1841)
• 209 • How the Sea Became Salt • (unknown) • short story by Snorri Sturluson [as by Anonymous]
• 213 • The Fate of the Children of Lir • (1879) • novelette by P. W Joyce
• 246 • How Finn MacCool Obtained the Knowledge of Future Events • (unknown) • short story by F. R. Davies
• 247 • Finn MacCool and the Giant • (unknown) • short story by F. R. Davies
• 253 • O'Donaghue's Pigs • short story by Mr. S. C. Hall and Mrs. S. C. Hall (variant of Legend of O'Donaghue's Pigs 1858) [as by Anonymous]
• 259 • Davy Hanlan • (unknown) • short story by Patrick Cody (variant of The Fairies in New Ross 1853)
• 263 • Some Nonsense • short fiction by Anonymous
• 276 • The Twelve Dancing Princesses • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 133] • (1826) • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Die zertanzten Schuhe 1815) [as by Grimm]
• 285 • Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper • (1858) • short story by Charles Perrault (trans. of Cendrillon ou La petite pantoufle de verre 1697)
• 295 • The Yellow Dwarf • (1855) • novelette by Comtesse d'Aulnoy (trans. of Le nain jaune 1698) [as by Countess d'Aulnoy]
• 321 • Beauty and the Beast • (1858) • novel by Madame de Villeneuve (trans. of La Belle et la Bête 1740)