The Faithless Lollybird
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Overview:
- Title: The Faithless Lollybird
- Author: Joan Aiken
- Year: 1978
- ISBN-10: 0385130732
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Price: $6.95
- Pages: 255
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Faithless Lollybird and Other Stories
- Notes:
- 1st US ed.
- Contents differ from the 1977 UK collection The Faithless Lollybird and Other Stories, adding the stories "Cat's Cradle" and "The Rain Child"; replacing illustrations by Pat Marriott with those by Eros Keith
- Publication date from contemporary review by Kirkus (posted 2012 with faux cover image and UK title, page-count, ISBN) -- "12 stories and a poem"
- {{LCCN|77-72999}} {{OCLC|3608132}} -- ISBN also 0385130740 (library binding) -- 255 pp, 22 cm (UK ed. 223 pp, 22 cm) Both library records list the 13 contents, in sequence below, without identifying any as the poem that two reviews report.
- Price from publisher advert NY Times 1978-04-30 pBR7 "More Spring Treasures! Doubleday Books for Young Readers"; subheading "for upper elementary and junior high"