- Full Title: Wonder tales from fairy isles: England, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Man and Ireland
- Editor: Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Illustrator: Constance Whittemore
Even though this was an English based publisher, ChatGPT gives the following evidence on it being distributed in America:
The strongest piece of context is the publisher. Longmans, Green and Co. had a New York office, and bibliographic history for the firm notes that into the 1930s it published some books simultaneously, or nearly so, in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and India.
Also, another Frances Jenkins Olcott volume in the same Wonder Tales run, Wonder Tales from Pirate Isles (1927), is cataloged as published in “New York [etc.]” by Longmans, Green and Co., which suggests that these Olcott titles were being issued for the American market rather than only as strictly London books.
Most importantly, Wonder Tales from Fairy Isles itself shows up in a U.S. newspaper context: the Hammond Lake County Times in Indiana on January 25, 1930 includes the title in a book list/snippet, which is solid evidence that it was at least being noticed and circulated in the American market by then.
Images from: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Wonder_Tales_from_Fairy_Isles
