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2017-06-19 -- try and keep this one temporary!

Swordpoint still in business evidently; see Amazon


2018-08
Maitland 193620 1852 https://lccn.loc.gov/42049305
2013 short fiction "The Doll and Her Friends; or, The Memoirs of Lady Seraphina" T1632565 --wrong title

Reginald megapacks

T1201618 --should we do this variant title (or dual 2006 dates)
... . . Reginald Contents list (Cats megapack)
Dolls megapack at Amazon

at Wikipedia

[Robert Beatty] --mentioned at Serafina/phina disambig
Rachel Hartman 118942 --redirect
Julia Maitland
Moira Young 155663


Siona discussion
Serafina [1] S42226
Seraphina S38413 EN
Julia Maitland, The Doll and Her Friends, or, Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina (1852)


Siona 2017-08-09

Irish Fairy Tales
Wilson, Bad Girls --non-genre
Peck, Blossom Culp (Egypt) T15771


Siona 2017-06-30 --interested in Harry Potter ancillaries and in Horrible Histories

(Asimov anth), Extraterrestrials P178133
Colfer, The Supernaturalist P562749
M., King of the Wind --non-genre
?, The Bronze Pen
(Green adapt), Tales of Old Egypt
The Enchanted Castle
The Treasure-Seekers?

crash 2017-07-08

important work lost, mainly newspapers

1894/96 --dnf "Fairy Tales of the British Empire"
1917/19 (macmanus) --[lost notes], 1919 hits only (3 advert, 1 review, no price)
1922/23 (alden) --[lost notes], 1922 hits only, chiefly Outlook $1.75(?) ; dnf 1934
1957 (de osma) --2 reviews; Title note not done
2003, 2013 (leach) --dnf
1931 (malkus) --noted


work on: de Osma, Leach,

illustrators nidb: Armstrong, Berger, Hasselriis,

Pogany 1913 at Amazon



Ghosts and Goblins, ed. Wilhemina Harper, 1936 (30) and 1965 (34) anthologies (38 distinct contents)

LibraryThing coverage is expanding [2]
error "all editions" where 1936 and 1965 differ (stories/poems and probably illustrators too)

check newspapers (not limited to Ghosts & Goblins contents: 1921 (wickes), 1934 (Sechrist), 1948 (Sechrist; Dolittle too)

1926 1970/71 1994 Skunny Wundy

1921 (henderson/jones), 1924/25 (henderson/calvert), later (Wonder Tales olcott)

see #Wonder Tales

check for each original anthology/collection whether Amazon shows 21st century editions

Ashley & Contento, The Supernatural Index T102454

  1. Editor List, -45 (Harper, p22)
  2. Book List, [47] 49-
  3. Story Index, -698 (Black Cat, p611)
  4. Book Contents, [699] 701-937?

--[expanded from / in part] The Supernatural Index, snippet[s] viewed at google


Homeville : Bibliographic Resources : by William G. Contento [3]

The FictionMags Index : edited by William G. Contento and Phil Stephensen-Payne stories by Author

-fmA (11) : Calvert, Capes, Henderson, Leach, Ledwidge, Masson, Parker, Pogany, Olcott, Sechrist, Wickes
-fm (16) : Alden, Baker/Baker, Bennett, Chrisman, Cocke, Davis, De Osma, Dixon, Eastman, Esenwein, Fisher, Lindsay, Malkus, Stockard, Wahlenberg
fm (7) : de la Mare, Finger, Jacobs, MacManus, Poulsson, Sandburg, Widdemer,

Miscellaneous Anthologies

-fmA (20) : Baker(2), Calvert, Capes, Chrisman, Cocke, Davis, de Osma, Dixon, Fisher, Henderson, Leach, Ledwidge, Lindsay, Malkus, Olcott, Parker, Pogany, Poulsson, Wickes
-fm (7) : Alden, de la Mare, Eastman, Finger, Sandburg, Wahlenberg, Widdemer
useless (4) : Bennett, Esenwein, Masson, Stockard [this anthology and later]
fm (3) : Jacobs, Macmanus, Sechrist


Joseph Jacobs User:Pwendt/FFM#Joseph Jacobs

1890 English (43, #1-43) (HDL, not linked, us nidb) ; o[4] with list of Contents; includes Teeny-Tiny (HDL)
1892 Celtic (#1-26) (HDL, not linked, us nidb) ;
1892 Indian (29) (HDL-us linked)
1894 More Celtic (#27-46) (Project Gutenberg #34453) (HDL us o[5]
1894 More English (44, #44-87) (HDL-uk

series NEEDs more editions and use of HDL sources

series advertised by Nutt at HDL

1890 E, 91 C, 92 I, 93 More English, 94 More Celtic
1895 The Fairy Tales of the British Empire [series name?] "Square Crown 8vo. Each volume upwards of 270 pages sumptuously printed on special paper, with wide margins, in specially designed cloth cover. 6s."


Maud Lindsay

1919 The Joyous Travelers, LCCN: <a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/19009661">19-9661</a>, which links e-copy at HDL
1921 The Joyous Guests, https://lccn.loc.gov/21021201 o[6]
1926 The Toy Shop, https://lccn.loc.gov/26016364 o[7]
1947 Mother stories and More mother stories (omnibus of 1900, 1905) -no HDL links

The Wishing-Well title note

listed thus in the magazine and book Contents thus:

"The Wishing-Well: Tale Told by the Nurse"


Alida Sims Malkus --source for biographical data?

since 2013 SFE3 gives realname Lyda, died Concord MA 1976-09-27 --not found in newspapers
Lowell Houser, illus. The Dark Star (1930) 200863 http://lccn.loc.gov/nr2003016907 (0) http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr2003-016907 --in queue

Houser also illus another writer's Maya collection, Dorothy Rhoads, The bright feather and other Maya tales 1932 o[8]

listing NYHT 1931-08-16 pJ17 "Books of the Week" (no price)

$2.00 from advert NYHT "The Spindle Imp is a story of two children in the Yucatan, filled with the myths, folklore, and deep-forest atmosphere of that ancient civilization" (suggests frame, not simple collection)

[9] review The Dark Star $2.50 and The Spindle Imp $2.00, Barbara Nolen "NYHT 1931-11-08 pJ8 "Maya Lore for All Ages"; refers to "the children of the tale" singular, "the story of two Mayan children whose everyday life is impregnated with folk lore and spirit worship"

Malkus, House both members of the Carnegie expedition = Carnegie Institution of Washington expeditions to the Yucatan

$2.00 Harriet Hammond Saturday Review does call it a "volume of short stories", evidently with continuity "the


Henderson

newspaper search: 'Wonder Tales' henderson : 1920/34 (23 hits, one spurious 1920, else earliest 1924)


Frances J. Olcott

1929 parent/child note(s)? display year 1929
1930 parent/child dilemma again --display year 1936

newspaper search 2017-07-08: 'Wonder Tales' olcott : 1920/34 (41 hits, earliest 1925, latest 1931; 1927-12-04 Children's Books of 1927)


http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-

Jay Van Everen, ill Davis 230725 
 l  .Guy (Edgar) Fry, ill Sechrist 160999 (4) http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n90-638621 [8 by Sechrist or Woolsey] https://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-fry,%20guy%20edgar/ [1] 
 l  .Gertrude (Alice) Kay, ill Wickes 174805 (15) http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr00-013056 at Pook Press(death discrepancy) 
  two 1926 George Macdonald
  1917 self, The Books of Seven Wishes https://lccn.loc.gov/18001132 -HDL
  1918 self, The Fairy Who Believed in Human Beings https://lccn.loc.gov/18021275 -HDL o[10]
 lw .W(illis) R(udolph) Lohse, ill Alden 157733 (?, none so credited) http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016-116463 

identity Lohse, all as illustrator 1920s

W. H. Lohse (evident mistake for W.R.) (only 1, Alden 1923) https://lccn.loc.gov/23017908 [18885932] ; in Catalog of Copyright Entries 1923 and 1951, published 1924 and 1952, viewed at google, for the one work only https://lccn.loc.gov/23017908 (c) 1923-11-17, first of three Nov/Dec dates stated
Willis Rudolph -- LC correctly attributes none (one to W.H., at least one to William R.)
William R., illustrator of No Time for Glory, WWII stories (5, inclg 1 or 2 by Willis https://lccn.loc.gov/29016856)

date-display dilemma

P485247 contents date displays (1844) and ---- (1959)
P374547 another (1936) and (1891)


contents numbering: Charles J. Finger, Tales --compare Contents T1843966; Contents displayed in new sequence after pagination (latterday ed.) or ordering (1930 ed.), not easy to transfer

remove all contents from (1924 ed.) and from 1930 ed. export all with page numbers


publisher Macrae Smith Company at Open Library, which covers variants separately; images suggest that "Macrae-Smith" may be derived from the publisher's use of "Macrae • Smith • Company"


Cosmopolitan Magazine

1903, vol 34 The Cosmopolitan: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (cover heading)
The Cosmopolitan (page 3 heading)


The Story of Doctor Dolittle

User:Pwendt/Series#Doctor Dolittle, 1948 book club ed. (1 of 2? at WorldCat states) "This edition has been specially edited, and some material has been deleted, for book club use."--Title page verso.

P368451 1948 ordinary ed. (1st as by Lippincott?) --repair in progress

Bookseller images of two used copies at Amazon.com 2017-06-22 show a red book cover that matches the linked image, whose illustration matches some early printings (see Wikisource); and an off-white dustjacket whose illustration matches the 1920 first printing red book cover (see Wikipedia book article).


ASIN: B0007E6ETA at multiple websites

[11] US as The Story, 366, 1st, with book 1 front cover only, with description and review (Wikipedia) of Secret Lake
[12] UK as Secret Lake, 366, 512894YuPAL.jpg (1st of 4 images)
[13] FR as Secret Lake, --, 5th or later Ed., same book 1 images (4)
[14] DE as Secret Lake, 172, 5th or later Ed., same book 1 images (4)
[15] CA as Secret Lake, --, 1st ed. same book 1 images (4)

4th of 4 images (inside flaps) shows

front, "A New Edition from New Plates" ; 52nd printing $2.95(?)
back, lists all 12 Dolittle books, hence no earlier than 1952

Amazon.com offer-listing/B0007E6ETA $54.00 BookRescue! 31Iv13Qxx3L.jpg $27.50 rare-book-cellar 51JivQa0C9L.jpg

o[16] xvi+172 (c)1948 o[17] 172 1948

o[18] x+182 42nd printing (c)1948 "A Stokes book" o[19] 182 (c)1948

Formats and Editions, 1967 point of entry


Wonder Tales

Henderson, 22 hits 1924/34

Amazon US shows Wales as 1922 (Small, Maynard); Japan, Spain as 1924; Alsace, Tyrol as 1925; UK shows Wales 1921, else same

Olcott, 41 hits 1925/31

Windmill Lands, NYT 1926-10-10 pBR28 $2.00
Fairy Isles, Chi. Trib 1929-11-23 p14


vary the search

'Wonder Tales' wales (11 all decade)
spurious 1923 lists Wonder Tales of the East (Donald A. Mackenzie, Blackie, 5/-), Celtic Wonder Tales (Ella Young, Dublin: Talbot, 3/6, new ed.)
also spurious 1923 is Canadian Wonder Tales (Cyrus MacMillan, C$4.00)(Eaton's, no publisher)
genuine [20] NYH, NYT 1924-11-09 pG7, $3.00, 1st US ed.?
'Wonder Tales' japan (25 all decade) 'old japan' (5, 1924/25)
'Wonder Tales' spain (14 all decade) 'ancient spain' (5)
'Wonder Tales' alsace (6, all 1926)
'Wonder Tales' tyrol (6, all 1926)

Alsace

[21] 1926-01-07 both @6/- ; :[22] -02-15 p2 brief review, as 2 in series
[23] Latest Books, Stokes eds. NYT 1926-08-29 pBR21 $2.50
[24] MWBianco review both NYHT -09-26 pF6
incl The Hungarian Fairy Book (new ed., no price) 1913 ed. at Amazon
incl The Queen of Roumania's Fairy Book $3.00
publisher adverts NYT -11-07 pBR13 "Notable New Books for Young People"
ACM [25] Children's Books, 1926 --see also 1927, lost in crash
incl Skunny Wundy $3.00

Tyrol --same hits except

[26] The Irish Times 1926-01-08 p3 "Publications Received", "uniform with the same writers' tales of Spain, Alsace, Japan, and Wales"