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