Fatapoufs and Thinifers
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Overview:
- Title: Fatapoufs and Thinifers
- Author: André Maurois
- Year: 1940
- Publisher: Henry Holt
- Price: $2.00
- Pages: 92
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: Fatapoufs and Thinifers
- Notes:
- 1st English-language publication of the novella, apparently
- Translated by Rosemary Benét
- Price from Tuck
- Publication date from review in "Fantasy at Sea and Underground" NY Herald Tribune 1940-11-10 pH10 ("retarded until next Thursday", as Jean Bouller, $2.50); confirmed NY Times -11-15 p18 (Holt "has finally put together"). Reviewed also by Lewis Gannett NY Herald Tribune -11-15 p17 (with b/w image of cover design, as $2.00). The newspaper and book publication dates are Sunday, Thursday, and Friday of Children's Book Week (US).
- Cover image from Amazon US 2018-04-30 The pictorial block matches that "cover design" published in Lewis Gannett's column (above), a much superior reproduction. If the illustration is one of the 1930 by Bruller, it is modified so that the way-signs display English-language names "Fatapoufs" and "Thinifers".