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Publication: The Gifts of the Child Christ & Other Stories and Fairy Tales

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  • Publication: The Gifts of the Child Christ & Other Stories and Fairy TalesPublication Record # 581858
  • Author: George MacDonald
  • Date: 1996-09-00
  • ISBN: 0-8028-4165-1 [978-0-8028-4165-0]
  • Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
  • Price:
    $29.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: xxvi+558
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: The Gifts of the Child Christ & Other Stories and Fairy Tales by Arthur Hughes
  • Notes: This is revised from the 1973 two-volume Eerdmans edition, adding the story 'Stephen Archer', and period illustrations by various artists. (old Note) Comparison shows that the 1973 edition contains two poems that are not here, the first and last contents of its volume 2. Its 20 stories appear in a sequence (as reported by WorldCat library record OCLC 623531) quite different from the sequence here. Unknown source for most data OCLC 34321046, with list of Contents (21 stories only, all as below) -- Summary "... illustrations of MacDonald's stories by Arthur Hughes and others." -- "illustrations ; 23 cm" That list of Contents gives stories only (the 21 items with arabic page numbers below) and without lead articles. Five of its listings contain brackets, such as   "Birth, dreaming, death [Schoolmaster's story]", of which only that one appear as foretitle:subtitle below; the other bracketed text do not appear below. For this ISBN as of 2017-04-17, Amazon US/UK provide this cover image (same filename) as Paperback with these data (no list price): • US: 558p "Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Rev Sub edition (April 1996)" 9 ... in • UK: 554p "William B Eerdmans Publishing Co; Revised edition edition (31 Dec. 1996)" 22.9 ... cm
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Collection Title: The Gifts of the Child Christ & Other Stories and Fairy Tales • collection by George MacDonald (variant of The Gifts of the Child Christ: Fairytales and Stories for the Childlike 1973)

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