The Rat-Catcher's Daughter: A Collection of Stories
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Overview:
- Title: The Rat-Catcher's Daughter: A Collection of Stories
- Author: Laurence Housman
- Year: 1974
- ISBN-10: 068930420X
- Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry / Atheneum
- Price: $5.95
- Pages: 169
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Prince with the Nine Sorrows
- Notes:
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1st ed.
"Library binding" (LCCN, below) is likely to be the unique hardcover format.
- "Selected and with an afterword by Ellin Greene." WorldCat provides the list of stories (12).
- Date from contemporary review by Kirkus (as posted online, no date; see the novel record).
- Price and March publication from "Atheneum Books for Children Spring 1974", School Library Journal 20.7 (Mar 1974) p4-5; this one ages "9-12. $5.95. March."
- That interior illustrator Noonan is also the cover artist must be expected and is supported by comparison of the cover image with some in her online portfolio (this one not found 2016-12-05).