• Publication: Summer Stories for Boys and GirlsPublication Record # 654828
• Author: Mrs. Molesworth
• Date: 1882-00-00
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Price:
  4/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 260
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • Data from Archive.org scan.
  • Price from contemporary advertisements, which also state that its size is crown octavo.
  • The book is divided into multiple "days" of storytelling. "The Goose-Girl" extends over two days; the second day is headed "The Goose-Girl—(Continued)."
  • The following non-genre stories have been omitted: "Introduction: How They Came to Be Written" (a frame-story); "Left Behind;" "The Toymakers of Bergstein."

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 21 • "The Swallows" • juvenile • short story by Mary Louisa Molesworth (variant of The Swallows) [as by Mrs. Molesworth]
• 52 • "Not Exactly a Ghost Story" • juvenile • short story by Mary Louisa Molesworth (variant of Not Exactly a Ghost Story) [as by Mrs. Molesworth]
• 82 • "The Goose-Girl"—A Fairy Tale • juvenile • novelette by Mary Louisa Molesworth (variant of The Goose-Girl) [as by Mrs. Molesworth]