Tiddledywink Tales

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Overview:

Title: Tiddledywink Tales
Author: John Kendrick Bangs
Year: 1891
Publisher: R. H. Russell
Pages: 236
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Tiddledywink Tales
Notes: 1st ed. LCCN: 06-6118, links e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) OCLC: 913324733 -- "Relief half tone frontispiece (by A. Barker Stephens) and line photoengravings" Publ date inferred from notice Cin. Enquirer 1891-11-27 p7 "New Publications" and reviews NY Times -12-06 p19 "New Books", Chi. Tribune -12-19 p12 "Today's Literature" (both entirely positive) (no price)

HDL (catalog record) provides full view of 3 copies with original cover apparently[*]: -- title page: credits illustrator by fullname, publisher as "R. H. Russell & Son" -- frontispiece b/w, clearly different medium, clearly signed "A. Barker Stephens" -- text spans p[9]-236 [*] None of 3 copies available 2017-01-03 indicates that it is a later printing. The apparently original cloth covers differ, one red (from U California, recommended) and two blue. Their small cover illustrations are identical (gold stamped?) and match that at the head of chapter one, p[9]. OCLC 913324733 describes a red cloth cover.