Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There

Overview:

  • Title: Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There
  • Author: Joel Chandler Harris
  • Year: 1894
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Price: $2.00
  • Pages: viii+230
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Grandmother of the Dolls
  • Notes: 1st ed. Project Gutenberg #23869 and Internet Archive: Copyright page states "The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company"

    Price from advertisement Chi. Tribune 1894-11-28 p7 "[HM]'s New Books" (this one with 32 pictures, square 8vo) Publication month inferred from that and earliest notice found, NY Times 1894-11-10 p3: JCH's new book "contains a series of adventures of a small boy and a girl with a small black nurse in that magical country to which Mr. Harris is the only guide."

    Located at HathiTrust Digital Library 2016-08-01: full views of 1894 UK, London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., also printed by Riverside Press --evidently same content and layout as 1894 US