Title: Hobberdy Dick

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. The hobgoblin of Widford Manor in the Cotswolds is sorely tried by a Puritan family that moves in from the city during the revolutionary 17th century. --assembled from multiple reviews and capsules "His life is spent watching and warding over an old house, keeping harm at bay, and doing what he can to further the happiness of the inhabitants, who cannot always see as clearly as he can what it will suit them to do." --review by Jill Paton Walsh The Christian Science Monitor 1977-05-04 p34 (very positive)

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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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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Hobberdy Dick	1955-10-28	K. M. Briggs	Eyre & Spottiswoode		12/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	191	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Hobberdy Dick	1969-00-00	K. M. Briggs	Alden Press			191	unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	novel
Hobberdy Dick	1972-00-00	K. M. Briggs	Puffin	0-14-030551-3	£0.25^?£: UK pound	208	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Hobberdy Dick	1976-04-29	K. M. Briggs	Puffin	0-14-030551-3	£0.50^?£: UK pound	208	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Hobberdy Dick	1977-02-28	K. M. Briggs	Greenwillow Books / William Morrow	0-688-80079-3	$6.95^?$: US dollar	239	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Hobberdy Dick	1978-00-00	K. M. Briggs	Kestrel Books	0-7226-5315-8	£2.95^?£: UK pound	202	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Hobberdy Dick: de huiskabouter van Widford	1980-00-00	K. M. Briggs	Sirius en Siderius	90-6441-017-8		206	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Emmy van Aalst
Hobberdy Dick	1988-09-08	K. M. Briggs	Canongate Kelpies	0-86241-196-3		207	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Hobberdy Dick	2000-10-00	K. M. Briggs	Jane Nissen Books	1-903252-05-9		239	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Hobberdy Dick	2009-06-12	K. M. Briggs	Faber and Faber	978-0-571-25206-0	£10.00^?£: UK pound	208	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel

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Reviews

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