• Publication: Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard TherePublication Record # 580564
• Author: Joel Chandler Harris
• Date: 1894-11-00
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Price:
  $2.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: viii+230
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: 1st ed. The LCCN record is incomplete, book evidently not examined Project Gutenberg #23869 and Internet Archive: Copyright page states "The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company" Price from advertisement Chi. Tribune 1894-11-28 p7 "[HM]'s New Books" (this one with 32 pictures, square 8vo) Publication month inferred from that and earliest notice found, NY Times 1894-11-10 p3: JCH's new book "contains a series of adventures of a small boy and a girl with a small black nurse in that magical country to which Mr. Harris is the only guide." Located at HathiTrust Digital Library 2016-08-01: full views of 1894 UK, London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., also printed by Riverside Press --evidently same content and layout as 1894 US
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: unk82-56811
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1147163
  • Open Library: OL7200697M

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There • interior artwork by Oliver Herford
• 5 • The Grandmother of the Dolls • juvenile • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 17 • Mr. Thimblefinger's Queer Country • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 33 • Mr. Thimblefinger's Friends • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 47 • Two Queer Stories • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 61 • The Talking-Sadle • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 73 • The Talking-Sadle and the Thief • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 86 • The Ladder of Lions • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 101 • Brother Terrapin's Fiddle-String • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 121 • Mr. Rabit As a Rain-Maker • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 131 • How Brother Bear's Hair Was Combed • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 139 • A Singing-Match • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 147 • The Strawberry-Girl • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 155 • The Witch of the Well • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 165 • The Bewitched Huntsman • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 175 • The Three Ivory Bobbins • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 185 • "Keen-Point," "Cob-Handle," and "Butch" • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 195 • Mrs. Meadows Resumes Her Story • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 215 • A Story of the River • short story by Joel Chandler Harris