Title: Hobberdy Dick

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Title: Hobberdy Dick Title Record # 840905
Author: Katharine M. Briggs
Date: 1955-00-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Language: English

Note:

Library records of the 1st ed. do not report the name of the author as credited on the title page. Publisher advertisements in newspapers (3) and the front cover display "K. M. Briggs". Several later editions from the 1960s-70s are known from library records and newspaper notices to be published as by "K. M. Briggs".

Synopsis: A hobgoblin is charged with the protection of an unloving Puritan family who come to live at an English manor in 1652.

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Year	Title
1955^ⓘ Library records of the 1st ed., not found 2018-06-25 in 1955 newspapers, do not report the name of the author as credited on the title page. Several later editions from the 1960s-70s are known from library records and newspaper notices to be published as by "K. M. Briggs".	Hobberdy Dick [as by K. M. Briggs]

Year	Language	Title
1980^ⓘTranslated by Paul de Vos	Dutch	Hobberdy Dick: De Huiskabouter van Widford [as by K. M. Briggs]

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Review by Mary S. Weinkauf (1978) in Delap's F & SF Review, February 1978
Review by Charles de Lint (1978) in Beyond the Fields We Know: Tales of Fantasy