Francis
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Overview:
- Title: Francis
- Author: David Stern (1909-2003)
- Year: 1946
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus
- Price: $2.50
- Pages: x+216
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Francis
- Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Publication date and price from "Books Published Today" (Monday), NY Times 1946-10-21 p41. (Kirkus Reviews gives the same publication date; see the novel record.)
- Cover image from Amazon.com 2018-11-09 as "Farrar, Straus And Co.; 1st edition (1946)".
- Cover illustration is part of one published in The Hartford Courant Magazine 1946-10-20 pSM14 as 'Portrait by Garrett Price of "Francis", the talking Army Mule ...'; that is one of the interior illustrations presumably.
- Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) give publisher name "Farrar, Straus and Company".
- Tuck confuses Stern with his father J. David Stern.
- Sources disagree about the pseudonym under which Francis short stories were originally published. The name of the human character should be checked: Peter Stirling or Peter Sterling?