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  • Publication: Fattypuffs and ThinifersPublication Record # 671197
  • Author: André Maurois
  • Date: 2001-00-00
  • ISBN: 1-903252-07-5 [978-1-903252-07-9]
  • Catalog ID: #19032520705
  • Publisher: Jane Nissen Books
  • Price:
    £5.99?£: UK pound
  • Pages: 96
  • Format:
    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.
  • Type: CHAPBOOK
  • Cover: Fattypuffs and Thinifers (1993) • by Fritz Wegner
  • Notes:
    • Reprint of the 2000 JNB edition One WorldCat library record of the 1st printing apparently, OCLC 44651725 is more informative than the record linked below.
    • "Introduction by Raymond Briggs" (front cover) Inside, Briggs appears only on the first leaf. The introduction may be deemed to comprise his "Fattypuffs and Thinifers", facetious letters to the reader signed A. Thinifer and B.A. Fattypuff, which shares the first leaf with "About André Maurois" and "About Fritz Wegner", and one sentence on the back cover (quote): "Speaking as a skinny Thinifer, I think this book is very sharp and very funny." Raymond Briggs.
    • Title page illustrated, displays logo (swan or goose afloat inside ellipse) over "Jane Nissen Books" (italic initials), no location or date.
    • T.p. verso states, in part (quote 4 lines):   First published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head 1941   New Edition 1968   Published in Jane Nissen Books 2000   Reprinted 2001 The translation not identified, except as this list of editions/printings implies the 1941 translation.
    • Cover illustration is by interior illustrator Wegner, or closely "after Wegner".
    • Preface signed "Fritz Wegner" over "London, 1993" recounts Wegner taking the commission in 1968. Presumably it is original to the 1993 edition. --as the cover illustration may be, or the title page vignette. The only 1993 copyright stated is illustrations "(c)Fritz Wegner 1968, 1993" and no later copyright is stated.
    • Eight back pages [99-106] introduce the new imprint and 7 other year 2000 publications, four as "Titles Spring 2000" and three as "Titles Autumn 2000". (Spot check indicates this ISBN is the eighth in sequence, "00" to "07".) Nothing indicates a corporate supporter of the new imprint, nor identifies any other business but the printer/binder "Creative Print and Design (Wales) Ebbw Vale, Gwent". (See also the imprint/publisher record.)
    • Cover image from Amazon UK/US 2018-06-22 as 2000-10-01; that is, 1st printing of this edition.
  • External IDs:
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Chapbook Title: Fattypuffs and Thinifers • (1941) • chapbook by André Maurois (trans. of Patapoufs et Filifers 1930)

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