• Publication: The Magic FingerPublication Record # 262017
• Author: Roald Dahl
• Date: 1966-08-00
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Price:
  $2.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 40
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Cover: The Magic Finger (1966) • by William Pène du Bois
• Notes:

  • First edition anywhere --from multiple later WorldCat records, e.g. OCLC 59152594
  • Publication date 1966-08-17 from contemporary starred review by Kirkus (posted 2011 with later cover image, ISBN, page-count) (positive; see the shortfiction record)
  • Price from newspaper reviews, earliest NY Times 1966-09-04 p198 (as 41 pp)
  • Prices $2.50 and $2.57 for the trade and HarperCrest library editions, from listing in "Harper Books for Girls and Boys Fall 1966" NY Times 1966-11-06 p393
  • As of 2018-09-10, Amazon.com (ASIN B002773OHU) provides a poor quality cover image as "Hardcover – 1966"; "Harper & Row; 27th Edition edition (1966)".
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 66-18657
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 851441248 426226196

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• The Magic Finger • juvenile • (1966) • short fiction by Roald Dahl