Knee-High to a Grasshopper

Overview:

  • Title: Knee-High to a Grasshopper
  • Author: Anne Parrish, Dillwyn Parrish
  • Year: 1923
  • Publisher: The Macmillan Company
  • Price: $2.50
  • Pages: 209
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Knee-High to a Grasshopper
  • Notes: 1st ed. LCCN: "5 p. l., 209 p. incl. illus., plates. 21 cm" {{OCLC|706004598}} represents the digital copy at HathiTrust Digital Library:
    • Title page shows the following between 'Knee-High to a Grasshopper' and publisher/location/year, in a square block that incorporates snail illustrations
    • -- By Anne & Dillwyn Parrish
    • -- With illustrations by the authors and a few photographs from little man's album
    • Identical front and back endpapers "A Few Photographs of Little Man's Friends from his own Album" comprise 16 square illustrations --hand-drawn photographs, some autographed-- with labels Miss Butterfly; Caterpillar M A; ... T. Turtle, Esq.; and Mr. Jeremiah Dozyboy Dormouse
    • Cloth cover with illustration evidently by the interior artist
    Price from advertisement by a department store NY Times 1923-11-10 p13 Reviewed by Laura Benet NY Tribune 1923-12-02 pSM24

    As of 2016-05-27 Wikipedia credits writer Anne, illustrator Dillwyn, which is plausible, but the title page explicitly credits joint work