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In the Days of Giants

Abbie Farwell Brown

First published 1902
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art E. Boyd Smith
Pages 259+[6]
Price $1.10

Subtitled 'A Book of Norse Myths'.

  • Stated: "Published April, 1902"
  • First edition
  • "Retold fron Edda Snorra Sturlusonar." (Edda of Snorri Sturluson; the Prose Edda, or Younger Edda)
  • "Six of these tales are reprinted from The Churchman"
  • Digital copy at HDL provides full view including cover -- cover green cloth, black lettering, black and gold illustration; the latter signed "E. B. S." -- title page large red colophon: The Riverside Press, Cambridge -- (also) "Houghton, Mifflin and Co." // "Boston and New York 1902" -- copyright page: Published April, 1902 -- one front page acknowledges 6 tales reprinted from The Churchman -- Contents, 16 numbered tales ("tales" per subtitle and acknowledgment) -- Illustrations, 6 including frontispiece (full-page b/w signed "E. BOYD SMITH", plates not included in pagination) -- text spans p[1]-259 -- p[260]: "The Riverside Press // Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. // Cambridge [...]"
  • Reviewed in "Fiction" The Sun (Baltimore) 1902-05-22 p8; this one unsigned, positive -- "7-1/4x5, pp. 259. Illus. $1.10" -- "Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston"
  • LCCN links e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL),
  • OCLC contains a list of Contents

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
In the Days of Giants Cover 2008 Yesterday's Classics Trade Paperback Collection E. Boyd Smith 204
In the Days of Giants Cover 2008 Dodo Press Trade Paperback Collection E. Boyd Smith 148
In the Days of Giants Cover 2008 Wildside Press Hardcover Collection 280
In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales 2014 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 44622