Poor Stainless
| First published | April 1971 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Novelette |
| Series | The Borrowers #4 .5 |
"[B]ook adventures were to have concluded (since Borrowers had become so hidden there were no human witnesses to record their future exploits). But here is more about their <i>past</i> ...". --Low
"Homily, encouraged by her daughter Arrietty, tells of a crisis in her youth when [boy Borrower] Stainless was lost. The whole Borrower family has to venture upstairs with large scale people in efforts to find him." --Gordon
- Revised in 1971
- Originally published in The Eleanor Farjeon Book: A Tribute to Her Life and Work, 1881-1965 (Hamish Hamilton, 1966), {{LCCN|68-121706}}; perhaps simultaneously in its US ed., A Book for Eleanor Farjeon [same subtitle] (H. Z. Walck, 1966).
- US 1st ed. chapbook reviewed by Alice Low NY Times 1971-05-02 pBRA34 (negative), Virginia Haviland Chi. Tribune and Was. Post -05-09 (positive), Myra Gordon Bos. Globe -10-02 p15 (negative, except re illustrations). Haviland says "completely in tune with the four major volumes" but the others hear it out of tune, evidently because it is a short reminiscence.
- Not found 2017-04-05 in automated search of multiple UK newspapers 1971/72.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1971 |
|
Poor Stainless | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | Chapbook | |
| November 1971 |
|
Poor Stainless | J. M. Dent | Chapbook | |
| 1994 |
|
The Complete Borrowers | Puffin | Omnibus | 703 |
| August 1994 | Poor Stainless | Viking UK | Collection | 9 | |
| November 1997 |
|
The Complete Borrowers Stories | Puffin | Omnibus | |502 |
| 2007 |
|
The Complete Borrowers | Puffin | Omnibus | |502 |
| October 2016 |
|
The Borrowers | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Omnibus | |
| June 2018 |
|
The Complete Borrowers | Puffin | Omnibus |