• Publication: Red MagicPublication Record # 877420
• Editor: Romer Wilson
• Date: 1930-00-00
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Price:
  7/6^?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: 368
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Wilson's third & last 'Magic' anthology. Last book illustrated by Nielsen. St. George & the Dragon and the Dragon of Wantley are from Percy's Reliques.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 003946928 012821461
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1008266519

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Red Magic • interior artwork by Kay Nielsen
• 11 • Introduction: Of Dragons • essay by Romer Wilson
• 17 • The Reward of Virtue • short story by Taddeo Ricciardi (trans. of Chi fa bene, ha bene...A chi fa male, non manca male 1910)
• 41 • The Story of the Three Bears • (1837) • short story by Robert Southey
• 47 • Bluebeard • (unknown) • short story by Charles Perrault (trans. of La barbe bleue 1697)
• 55 • Rich Peter the Pedlar • [Norske Folkeeventyr • 5] • (1859) • short story by
  Peter Asbjørnsen^?Peter Asbjoernsen
  and
  Jørgen Moe^?Jorgen Moe
  (trans. of Rike Per Kremmer 1841) [as by Sir George Dasent (in error)]
• 69 • Hawk and Mole • (1918) • short story by Edward L. Handy
• 73 • A Child's Dream of a Star • (1850) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 79 • Bean Flower and Pea Blossom • (unknown) • short story by Charles Nodier (trans. of Trésor des Fèves et Fleur des Pois 1822)
• 105 • The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse • [Aesop's Fables • 112] • (unknown) • short story by Aesop (trans. of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse) [as by
  Æsop^?Aesop
  ]
• 109 • King Uggermugger; or, The Princess Silver-Silk • (1864) • short story by Cholmondeley Pennell
• 125 • The Bear and the Hunter's Stepson • (1915) • short story by Marius Barbeau [as by C. M. Barbeau]
• 137 • At the Door • (unknown) • short story by Puss Prambula Compton
• 141 • The Six Swans • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 49] • (unknown) • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Die sechs Schwäne 1812)
• 149 • The Enchanted Hind • (unknown) • novelette by Comtesse d'Aulnoy (trans. of La biche au bois 1697)
• 189 • Mrs. Tabitha Tortoiseshell • (unknown) • short story by Puss Prambula Compton
• 193 • Bel and the Dragon • (unknown) • short story by Apocrypha
• 199 • St. George and the Dragon • (1597) • poem by unknown
• 211 • The Dragon of Wantley • (unknown) • poem by unknown
• 219 •
  The Chimæra^?The Chimaera
  • (1851) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 243 • Bash-Chalek; or, True Steel • (1874) • short story by Wuk Stephanowitsch Karadschitsch (trans. of
  Баш Челик^?Bash Chelik
  1870) [as by Mme. Elodie L. Mijatovich (in error)]
• 267 • Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp • [Aladdin] • (unknown) • novella by uncredited