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The Virago Book of Fairy Tales

Angela Carter

First published 1990
Series Angela Carter's Fairy Tales #1
Publisher Virago
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Corinna Sargood
Pages xxii+242
Price £12.99
ISBN 1853812056

  • Introduction and Notes by Angela Carter
  • One WorldCat library record of the 1st US ed., hardcover, {{OCLC|22006561}} provides a list of Contents, stories only. Page-counts imply that the UK and US eds., hard- and softcover, are identical.
  • 7 groups of tales, unnumbered at {{OCLC|22006561}} -- Brave, Bold and Wilful -- Clever Women, Resourceful Girls and Desperate Stratagems -- Sillies -- Good Girls and Where It Gets Them -- Witches -- Unhappy Families -- Moral Tales These headings and their contents (tales) match Parts 1 to 7 of the 2005 omnibus Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (Contents viewed at Amazon as "Look Inside!" the 2015 Kindle ed., {{ASIN|B0176TC6LI}}).

1st ed. Publ date and price from "Tell-tale sisters: [...] Angela Carter tells Paul Mansfield" The Guardian 2017-10-25 p32, interview-based feature; endnote "is published today"

Cover image from Amazon UK 2017-05-24. Same day "Look Inside!" (paperback, ISBN 1853814407, 2003 reprint) includes -- b/w frontispiece -- Contents (complete) -- Introduction, p.ix-xxii, closing "Angela Carter, London, 1990" (incomplete) -- Notes, p230-42 (incomplete)

Cover artist is interior illustrator Sargood, evidently from comparison with frontispiece

Year Reviewer Publication
1994 Glen E. Cox First Impressions, Installment Thirteen

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Virago Book of Fairy Tales Cover 1991 Virago Trade Paperback Anthology Corinna Sargood xxii+242