Paul F. Svenningsen’s only wordless novel, Little Stranger, plots the course of having a baby from conception to delivery. Somewhat gender-driven in a typical 1950s manner and a charming little book.

  • Title: Little Stranger
  • Author and Illustrator: Paul F. Svenningsen
  • Year: 1951
  • ISBN: not applicable
  • Publisher: Putnam & Company Ltd.
  • Place of publication: 42 Great Russell Street, London, WC1.
  • Printer: Chas. Pearson & Son Ltd
  • Copyright: Svenningsen?
  • Size: octavo
  • Dust jacket: Yes- designed by the author?
  • Binding: hard cover, thin boards
  • Cover: Paper-covered pictorial boards, same as DJ
  • Language: English titles, etc
  • Paginated: unpaginated
  • Printed: verso and recto
  • Edition: Trade only, not limited
  • Description: black line drawings
  • Edition size: as per the back flap of the 1969 edition of Little Angel by Svenningsen, 50,000 copies of Little Stranger had been printed to date.
Hardcover has the same image as the front of the dust jacket
1st Printing and Title page
5th Printing in 1958

1954 German translation; Was kommt denn da?

Zürich (Verlag Sanssouci) 1954
Image credit: Antiquariat Wölfel


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