Nine Unlikely Tales for Children
| First published | 1901 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | T. Fisher Unwin |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Collection |
| Cover art | H. R. Millar & Claude A. Shepperson |
| Pages | xiii+297 |
| Price | 6/- |
- 9 stories, all first published in magazines probably
- After the first Bastable Children serial novel: "she now turned to fantasy, writing a series of witty Fairytales for The Strand and other papers, collected as The Book of Dragons (coll 1899) and Nine Unlikely Tales for Children (coll 1901)." --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biog. entry by Lisa Tuttle (All 8 Dragons stories were first published in The Strand.)
- 5 of the 9 Unlikely stories constitute the 1993 collection Whereyouwantogoto and Other Tales.
- 1st ed.
- Publication date inferred from "Christmas Books" The Scotsman 1901-09-23 p3 "Already, while the leaves have hardly yet begun to fall, the 'Christmas book' ... has made its appearance ..."; this one of several reviewed in that column. Price from publisher advert "T. Fisher Unwin's Books. For Christmas Presents." Manchester Guardian 1901-12-17 p4
- Full cover image from Amazon UK 2017-03-07, as Unwin 1st ed. 1901, with others including title page that shows (three lines, all caps): Pictured by Claude Shepperson, H. R. Millar and Others, and with a frontispiece by A. L. Bowley and below unsigned illustration shows (three lines, no date): London T. Fisher Unwin Adelphi Terrace
- Probably the three stamped illustrations on back, spine, and front are three from 1st publications of the stories in magazines, separately illustrated by Shepperson, Millar, et al. (no joint work)
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| |1 | The Cockatoucan | E. Nesbit | Novelette |
| |2 | Whereyouwantogoto | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| |3 | The Blue Mountain | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| |4 | The Prince, Two Mice, and Some Kitchen-Maids | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| |5 | Melisande, or Long and Short Division | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| |6 | Fortunatus Rex & Co. | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| |7 | The Sums That Came Right | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| |8 | The Town in the Library, in the Town in the Library | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| |9 | The Plush Usurper | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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| Nine Unlikely Tales for Children | 1910 | T. Fisher Unwin | Hardcover | Collection | xiii+297 | |||
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2008 | LibriVox | digital audio download | Collection |