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Publication: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature

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  • Publication: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's LiteraturePublication Record # 326908
  • Author: John Rowe Townsend
  • Date: 1975-03-17
  • ISBN: 0-397-31528-7 [978-0-397-31528-4]
  • Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
  • Price:
    $10.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 368
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Notes:
    • Revised edition (much expanded) 1st ed. as "English-language" (c)1974 Bibliography, p342-49
    • WorldCat (OCLC, below) -- lists Contents (4 parts) -- states "Revised edition, [First U.S. edition]" But there was a US ed. of the shorter 1st ed. (1965, as "English") in 1967, LCCN 70007188.
    • Publication date from contemporary notice in Kirkus Reviews (see the nonfiction Title record).
    • Cover/spine image from Amazon.com 2018-07-29, with "Look inside" the 6th US ed. (Scarecrow Press, 1996). The black line drawing is by Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (1963); the white line drawing (woodcut?) is inscrutable, relying on the image from Amazon.
  • External IDs:
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Nonfiction Title: Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature • (1974) • nonfiction by John Rowe Townsend (variant of Written for Children: An Outline of English Children's Literature 1965)

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