• Publication: The Blue MoonPublication Record # 571409
• Author: Laurence Housman
• Date: 1904-00-00
• Publisher: John Murray
• 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: vii+210
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st ed.
  • Price from Saturday Review 1904-12-17 (See the collection record.)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of two copies with original cover -- both cover images too dark to see clearly; illustration attributed to LH with support from the similar 1895 collection The House of Joy -- title page and predecessor heavily illustrated, signed LH -- t.p. states "engraved by Clemence Housman" -- List of Illustrations, p.vii, 9 plates not included in the pagination -- text spans p3-210; p210 footer "Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld.[sic], London and Aylesbury." Listed page numbers represent short story title pages, all of which are so numbered; all but the first and last are followed by one plate not included in the pagination, then by the narrative (first story illustrated facing the title page, last story not illustrated)
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 14008918

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Blue Moon • interior artwork by Laurence Housman
•  The Blue Moon • interior artwork by Clemence Housman
• 1 • The Blue Moon • (1899) • short story by Laurence Housman
• 19 • A Chinese Fairy-Tale • (1901) • short story by Laurence Housman
• 41 • The Way of the Wind • short story by Laurence Housman
• 77 • A Capful of Moonshine • short fiction by Laurence Housman
• 93 • The Moon-Stroke • short fiction by Laurence Housman
• 111 • How Little Duke Jarl Saved the Castle • short fiction by Laurence Housman
• 127 • The White Doe • short fiction by Laurence Housman
• 151 • The Gentle Cockatrice • short fiction by Laurence Housman
• 173 • The Rat-Catcher's Daughter • short story by Laurence Housman
• 191 • White Birch • short fiction by Laurence Housman