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The Starlight Wonder Book

Henry B. Beston

First published 1923
Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Maurice Day
Pages 263

12 stories This may be considered "New Fairy Tales", volume 2, in terms of the writer's and illustrator's introduction to 1919 The Firelight Fairy Book (see).

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • No edition or printing statement
  • Year based on copyright
  • "SEP 12 '23 [over] Ⓒ C1 A 7 1 1 8 6" is stamped on bottom of copyright page, but this may be a latter (library?) addition as rest of copyright page is printed
  • Artist credit per title page
  • Scan does not have a dust jacket
  • Text ends on unnumbered page 263, which closes with these two lines: The Parson Capen House / Topsfield Massachusetts
  • The last printed leaf [265-66] lists three "Other Books by the Same Author"; identifies the Boston printer and Cambridge bookbinder.
  • Price "$3.00 postpaid" must be expected here, as advertised p[265] for Beston and Day's Firelight Fairy Book in "A new edition with a preface by Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt" (see).

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The Starlight Wonder Book 2021 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 66124