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Author:agent Annie Osborn

Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 The Guinea Pig That Wanted a Tail

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Jimmie the guinea pig was desperate for a tail, against all advice from his friends in the zoo.

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Illustrator: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Publisher: Whitcombe and Tombs

Melbourne, Victoria,: Whitcombe and Tombs , 1918 .

Printed by Specialty Press

Extent: 44p.

Series: y The Willie Winkie Zoo Books Whitcombe and Tombs (publisher), Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs , 1918 Z1351740 1918 series - publisher children's fiction children's Number in series: 3
Publisher: Whitcombe and Tombs

Melbourne, Victoria,: Whitcombe and Tombs , y ca. 1921 .

Extent: 32p.
Description: illus. (b & w)
Reprinted: 1924 Reprinted continuously to 1955.

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For children ages 8 to 9 years

Nine editions totalling 49,413 copies were bound to August 1939 according to Ian F. McLaren Whitcombe's Story Books : a trans-tasman survey (1984): 83.

Series: y Whitcombe's Story Books Whitcombe's Story Readers Whitcombe and Tombs (publisher), Christchurch Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs , 1908-1960 Z1036790 1908 series - publisher children's fiction children's y Australian Nature Story Readers Whitcombe and Tombs (publisher), 1920-1930 Z1363674 1920 series - publisher children's fiction children's Number in series: 315

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