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Tiddledywink Tales

John Kendrick Bangs

First published 1891
Publisher R. H. Russell
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Cover art Charles Howard Johnson
Pages 236

Probably the poems from this novel, and some of the illustrations, were separately issued in The Tiddledywink's Poetry Book, published by Russell in 1892, {{LCCN|14-22733}}.

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.