• Publication: Longnose the Dwarf and Other Fairy TalesPublication Record # 764923
• Author: W. Hauff
• Date: 1903-00-00
• Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
• Price:
  2/6^?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: 303
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: Translated by Percy E. Pinkerton HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy, probably without original cover: -- half-title Hauff's Fairy Tales -- title page Format and price are from a Swan Sonnnenschein list on the half-title leaf (two lines thus):   Uniform with this Volume.   Illustrated. Cloth gilt extra, 2s. 6d. each. (work in progress) As images are assembled at HathiTrust, some front pages are scanned more than once, and some scans of those pages are repeated. Between what may be called the final half-title leaf, images 23-24, and final 1903 title leaf, images 28-29, there is a version of the title page with imprint obscured by this note (5 printed lines, styles vary):   This book is now published by   George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.   Ruskin House.   40, Museum Street.   London, W.C.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Longnose the Dwarf • [Der Scheich von Alessandria und seine Sklaven / The Sheik of Alexandria and His Slaves • 1] • (1881) • novelette by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Der Zwerg Nase 1826) [as by W. Hauff]
• 61 • The History of Little Mook • [Die Karawane / The Caravan • 5] • (1881) • short story by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Die Geschichte von dem kleinen Muck 1825) [as by W. Hauff]
• 99 • The Caliph Turned Stork • [Die Karawane / The Caravan • 1] • (1881) • short story by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Kalif Storch 1825) [as by W. Hauff]
• 125 • The Adventures of Said • [Das Wirtshaus im Spessart / The Inn in the Spessart • 3] • (1881) • novelette by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Saids Schicksale 1827) [as by W. Hauff]
• 196 • The Stone Cold Heart • [Das kalte Herz / The Cold Heart] • (1881) • short fiction by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Das kalte Herz 1827) [as by W. Hauff]
• 270 • The Story of the Silver Florin • [Das Wirtshaus im Spessart / The Inn in the Spessart • 1] • (1881) • novelette by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Die Sage vom Hirschgulden 1827) [as by W. Hauff]