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Cover of Before Oz: Juvenile Fantasy Stories from Nineteenth-Century America

Before Oz: Juvenile Fantasy Stories from Nineteenth-Century America

Mark I. West

First published 1989
Publisher Archon Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Julian Hawthorne
Pages xi+229
Price $32.50
ISBN 0208022341

  • A collection of twenty fantasy stories written for children in the nineteenth century, arranged in the categories "Fairy Tales" [9,] "Didactic Stories" [2,] "Magical Objects" [6,] and "Nonsense Stories" [3]. Includes a scholarly introduction providing an overview of the field. --summary, WorldCat library record of the 1st ed., {{OCLC|20017074}}
  • Some are excerpts from novels, by inference from credited authors and titles

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • No edition or printing statement
  • 1989 on title page and copyright page. Source of month unknown.
  • Cover artist credit per rear dust jacket flap
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • No price. Source of price unknown.
  • Each story is preceded (on story title page) with introduction to author and story.
  • Contains artwork from original publications.
  • "Farmer Griggs and the Boggart" artwork credited per signature (H.P.)

Year Reviewer Publication
1991 Michael Patrick Hearn The Baum Bugle, Autumn 1991