The Best of Pippi Longstocking

3 novellas; 1 short story not in the 2015 edition Contents of the 1st ed. with first publication dates of the Swedish-language original and of the translation: · 1949, 2003, transl. Patricia Crampton   [not in the 2015 ed.] · 1945, 1954, transl. Edna Hurup (Pippi #1) · 1948, 1957, transl. Marianne Turner (Pippi #3) · 1946, 1956, transl. Marianne Turner (Pippi #2) [precedes #3 in the 2015 ed.] The opening short story "Pippi Celebrates Christmas" was (in English) a "never-before-seen bonus Pippi story" per the 2003 front cover.

Data from Amazon UK as of 2012-06-26 Amazon UK as of 2016-05-13 provides "Look Inside!" undated copy (price £7.99)

• Copyright page lists first publication (as well as copyright) dates for the four works
• -- with incorrect 1955 and 1956 for the second (#3 1948) and third (#2 1946) of the novel(la)s as published here
• -- (quote) 'Pippi Celebrates Christmas' first published as 'Pippi firar jul' in Julbocken 1949
• -- states ISBN-13 first; 8th printing per numberline
• Contents of omnibus by title, with page numbers given below
• p[1] title page for the short story: ... transl. Patricia Crampton (over illus. over) Oxford University Press
• Text of the first story only, which spans p3-6
• p[7-8] title page and Contents of the first novel by chapter
• Back cover credits Ross; states £7.99 RRP

{{OCLC|59302542}} with list of Contents. Some WorldCat library records omit the short story "Pippi Celebrates Christmas"; some list the three novels in order of their original publication (1-2-3) rather than the sequence published here (1-3-2).

Front cover star decal "Plus never-before-seen bonus Pippi story" interpreted to mean that this is an original translation of the 1949 short story