• Publication: A Wonder-Book for Girls and BoysPublication Record # 586043
• Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Date: 1880-00-00
• Publisher: Houghton, Osgood and Company
• Pages: viii+224
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 2nd ed./printing by this short-lived publisher, at least, and not including its publication of the work alongside Grandfather's Chair in one omnibus among its 1879 "works of Nathaniel Hawthorne in twelve volumes"
  • OCLC: 10495630 -- 19cm
    • Some WorldCat libraries catalog "The Riverside Press, Cambridge" as second publisher, at least for one 1879 ed. (OCLC 226659696 and 23948849; as viii+224, 16cm)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) catalogs multiple copies of Houghton, Osgood editions, 1879 and 1880, examined 2016-09-19. All but one show Houghton, Mifflin on the title page. Thus: HDL provides full view of one copy:
    • title page, p[iii], includes the only illustration and supports interpretation of "The Riverside Press, Cambridge" as second publisher
    • copyright page states 1852 alone (where later Houghton Mifflin eds. state also Rose Hawthorne 1879) and "University Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge"
    • Preface v-vi, Contents vii-viii, and 18 sub-contents (3 each story) have head- and tail-decorations but no illustrations
    • implied pagination i-viii and 9-224 from the first leaf after presumable front endpaper
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 226659696 23948849 10495630

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • The Gorgon's Head • (1851) • short fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 51 • The Golden Touch • (1851) • short fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 83 • The Paradise of Children • (1851) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 113 • The Three Golden Apples • (1851) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 151 • The Miraculous Pitcher • (1851) • short fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 185 •
  The Chimæra^?The Chimaera
  • (1851) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne