The Best of Pippi Longstocking: Three Books in One

Overview:

  • Title: The Best of Pippi Longstocking: Three Books in One
  • Author: Astrid Lindgren
  • Year: 2003
  • ISBN-10: 0192753371
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Price: £8.99
  • Pages: 378
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Best of Pippi Longstocking
  • Notes:
    Data from Amazon UK as of 2012-06-26 Amazon UK as of 2016-05-13 provides "Look Inside!" undated copy (price £7.99)
    • Copyright page lists first publication (as well as copyright) dates for the four works
    • -- with incorrect 1955 and 1956 for the second (#3 1948) and third (#2 1946) of the novel(la)s as published here
    • -- (quote) 'Pippi Celebrates Christmas' first published as 'Pippi firar jul' in Julbocken 1949
    • -- states ISBN-13 first; 8th printing per numberline
    • Contents of omnibus by title, with page numbers given below
    • p[1] title page for the short story: ... transl. Patricia Crampton (over illus. over) Oxford University Press
    • Text of the first story only, which spans p3-6
    • p[7-8] title page and Contents of the first novel by chapter
    • Back cover credits Ross; states £7.99 RRP
    {{OCLC|59302542}} with list of Contents. Some WorldCat library records omit the short story "Pippi Celebrates Christmas"; some list the three novels in order of their original publication (1-2-3) rather than the sequence published here (1-3-2).

    Front cover star decal "Plus never-before-seen bonus Pippi story" interpreted to mean that this is an original translation of the 1949 short story