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Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Ann Petry

First published 1971
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 305
ISBN 0395126711

13 stories (listed in LC records {{LCCN|75-150139}}, {{LCCN|2017-9913}}) Two are in the database as known speculative fiction (2018).

Date is from the August 1971 review by Kirkus (above, very positive) --posted online with cover image and ISBN-10 of the 2008 Dafina Books ed. The review features three evidently non-genre stories not in the database.

Library of Congress as of April 2023 catalogs five editions as 1971, 1989, 1999, [2008], 2017.

  • First edition
  • Only the two known speculative fiction stories are entered (2018). There may be others. Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) provide Contents list as 13 apparent story titles.
  • Publication date from contemporary, positive review by Kirkus (see the collection record) --posted online with cover image and ISBN-10 from the 2008 Dafina Books edition.
  • Cover image from Amazon.com (2018). As of 2023-04-09 and for ISBN 0395126711 entered here today, Amazon displays a visually identical image as Hardcover; "very good dust jacket with protective cover"; and "Houghton Mifflin (January 1, 1971)".

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