The Magic Finger
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Overview:
- Title: The Magic Finger
- Author: Roald Dahl
- Year: 1966
- ISBN-10:
- Publisher: Harper & Row
- Price: $2.50
- Pages: 40
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Magic Finger
- Notes:
- First edition anywhere --from multiple later WorldCat records, e.g. {{OCLC|59152594}}
- Publication date 1966-08-17 from contemporary starred review by Kirkus (posted 2011 with later cover image, ISBN, page-count) (positive; see the shortfiction record)
- Price from newspaper reviews, earliest NY Times 1966-09-04 p198 (as 41 pp)
- Prices $2.50 and $2.57 for the trade and HarperCrest library editions, from listing in "Harper Books for Girls and Boys Fall 1966" NY Times 1966-11-06 p393
- As of 2018-09-10, Amazon.com ({{ASIN|B002773OHU}}) provides a poor quality cover image as "Hardcover – 1966"; "Harper & Row; 27th Edition edition (1966)".