• Publication: All-Fellows, and, The Cloak of FriendshipPublication Record # 570760
• Author: Laurence Housman
• Date: 1923-00-00
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Price:
  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: 192
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: 1st ed. LCCN and OCLC: -- uses title "All-fellows and the cloak of friendship" -- "First published in one volume, 1923." (note in the book) -- reports illustrated title page and 7 plates, no illustrator credit (implies self-illustrated) Price from advertisement by the publisher Manchester Guardian 1923-12-12 p13 "a book of stories uniform with [1922 collections] Moonshine & Clover and A Doorway in Fairyland" Reginald probably fashions the title with two commas, probably representing three lines with "and" alone on the second The first 14 of 15 stories are all those from All Fellows (1896) and The Cloak of Friendship (1905), mixed and without apparent relation to the original sequences. The meaning of the title may be "All Fellows and The Cloak of Friendship" but the last story is new (date from Clute/Grant "Housman, Laurence").
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 24-11794
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 4088104
  • Reginald-1: 07452

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  All-Fellows, and, The Cloak of Friendship • interior artwork by Laurence Housman
• The Truce of God • (1896) • short story by Laurence Housman
• The Cloak of Friendship • (1905) • short story by Laurence Housman
• The King's Evil • (1896) • short story by Laurence Housman
• Little St. Michael • short story by Laurence Housman (variant of Little Saint Michael 1905)
• The Lovely Messengers • (1896) • short story by Laurence Housman
• The Love-Child • (1899) • short story by Laurence Housman
• The Staff of Life • (1905) • short story by Laurence Housman
• The Merciful Drought • (1896) • short story by Laurence Housman
• The Troubling of the Waters • (1905) • short story by Laurence Housman
• The Heart of the Sea • (1896) • short story by Laurence Housman
• The House of Rimmon • (1905) • short story by Laurence Housman
• When Pan Was Dead • (1896) • short story by Laurence Housman
• Damien, the Worshipper • (1905) • novelette by Laurence Housman
• The Tree of Guile • (1896) • short story by Laurence Housman
• Inside-Out • (1917) • short story by Laurence Housman