The Search for Delicious

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Overview:

Title: The Search for Delicious
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Year: 1969
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $3.95
Pages: 167
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Search for Delicious
Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Publication date and illustrator credit from contemporary review by Kirkus (see the novel record). The review closes, "She's doing the drawings also, which should be something to look forward to." This implies that Kirkus reviewed the unillustrated text.
- Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports -- "Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1969]" (publication date inferred or investigated, not stated) -- "An Ariel book" -- (no ISBN)
- WorldCat libraries report 1969 only as copyright date. OCLC 13394 lists four ISBN: 0312369824 0374465363 1439554110 0374365342 (some ISBN-13 listed first, some second). Other records suggest 2nd printing 1970, report 3rd printing 1971 and some printing 1973 (all as An Ariel book). Partially readable price on front flap of Archive.org copy; also at: https://www.nytimes.com/1969/05/04/archives/the-search-for-delicious-by-natalie-babbitt-illustrated-by-the.html.