The Doubling Rod
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Overview:
- Title: The Doubling Rod
- Author: Ada Harrison
- Year: 1958
- Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Price: $3.00
- Pages: 192
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Doubling Rod
- Notes:
- 1st US ed.
- The title page should be checked for possible author credit as "Ada M. Harrison", the canonical name of the writer at UK and US national libraries, whose records of this work do not report the author credit.
- Front jacket credits "Ada Harrison". Back jacket provides a brief biography of "Ada Harrison". --from outside jacket image viewed at ABEbooks (bi=11280811828)
- Publication date from contemporary review by Kirkus (author name missing, as posted online). The review is unusually brief and negative. See the novel record.
- Price from brief review in unsigned "Unusual and Charming", NY Herald Tribune 1958-05-11 p90 (page E4 of Herald Tribune Book Review, special issue for the 22nd annual NYHT Children's Book Festival).
- The linked front jacket image is from Amazon.com 2018-11-30 as "Harcourt, Brace; 1st American Edition edition (1958)".
- Front book cover is red/orange cloth? with no lettering and a black line drawing of (no doubt) the stolen Etruscan bronze statuette, doubled. --from one image at eBay