The Three Princes of Serendip
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Overview:
- Title: The Three Princes of Serendip
- Author: Elizabeth Jamison Hodges
- Year: 1964
- Publisher: Atheneum
- Price: $3.95
- Pages: 158
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Three Princes of Serendip
- Notes:
- 1st ed. (unstated?)
Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports "[1st ed.]" and notes (quoting LC), "An adaptation of Peregrinaggio di tre giovani".
- "First Printing January 1964" --from copyright page of stated 2nd printing (above "Second Printing March 1966"); viewed with front/spine and back images in dustjacket at ThriftBooks.com.
- Contemporary review by Kirkus --as later posted online, which confuses the writer and illustrator surnames-- reports publication date 1964-03-20 (see the novel record).
- Price from "Atheneum Books for Children Spring 1964", School Library Journal 10.7 (Mar 1964) p12; this one as ages "8-12; $3.95".
- Cover image from Amazon.com 2022-12-06 as "Atheneum; 1st edition (January 1, 1964)". Multiple dealers at ABEbooks.com provide images of the book in its dustjacket, with primarily white illustration of elephant and howdah on dark blue background.