ISBN10: 1388452014, ISBN13: 9781388452018, [publisher: BLURB INC] Hardcover Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 186
[Trebbin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2020]

[publisher: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd] Hardcover RO40083202: 1926. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Quelques rousseurs. 296 pages. Dessin en couleur en frontispice. Illustré de gravures en noir et blanc hors texte. Texte en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
[SABLONS, France] [Publication Year: 1926]
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ISBN10: 1782824006, ISBN13: 9781782824008, [publisher: LEONAUR] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Three wonderful volumes of classic fantastical children's fictionEveryone familiar with children's fiction has heard of Edith Nesbit, who is rightly acclaimed as the first modern writer for children and the originator of the children's adventure story. Her influence on other children's writers, including those active and popular today is undeniable, not least because her stories feature believable contemporary children journeying to imaginary worlds and times for adventures with fantastical creatures and magical objects. Of consistently high quality, her writing is enthralling, direct and immediately engaging-so much so that many adults remember them fondly and re-read them throughout their lives. Leonaur has gathered together the three principal series of Nesbit's fiction in good value editions for new readers and for those for whom their nostalgia is irresistible. The Psammead Adventures, of course, feature the magical but truculent wish granting sand-fairy discovered in a gravel-pit. The Mouldiwarp Adventures continue in similar vein as the fantastical Mouldiwarp assists two children travel through time to find a lost fortune. The wonderful Bastable series sees the widowed Oswald Bastable and his children hunting for treasure to restore their family fortunes. These three Leonaur volumes of a tales from ...
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ISBN10: 1782823999, ISBN13: 9781782823995, [publisher: LEONAUR] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Three wonderful volumes of classic fantastical children's fictionEveryone familiar with children's fiction has heard of Edith Nesbit, who is rightly acclaimed as the first modern writer for children and the originator of the children's adventure story. Her influence on other children's writers, including those active and popular today is undeniable, not least because her stories feature believable contemporary children journeying to imaginary worlds and times for adventures with fantastical creatures and magical objects. Of consistently high quality, her writing is enthralling, direct and immediately engaging-so much so that many adults remember them fondly and re-read them throughout their lives. Leonaur has gathered together the three principal series of Nesbit's fiction in good value editions for new readers and for those for whom their nostalgia is irresistible. The Psammead Adventures, of course, feature the magical but truculent wish granting sand-fairy discovered in a gravel-pit. The Mouldiwarp Adventures continue in similar vein as the fantastical Mouldiwarp assists two children travel through time to find a lost fortune. The wonderful Bastable series sees the widowed Oswald Bastable and his children hunting for treasure to restore their family fortunes. These three Leonaur volumes of a tales from ...
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[publisher: Frederick A. Stokes] Hardcover New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899. 12mo hardcover. 296pp. Illustrations. Good book. Spine slightly cocked. Slightly dampstained. Owner's name on front endpage. (Poverty, Adventure, Juvenile Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.
[Frederick, MD, U.S.A.]

[publisher: London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899] Hardcover First Edition [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [2]; 296; [2]; [2 of advertisements]; [8 of publisher's advertisements]. Publisher's blue-green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated with seventeen plates. Contents clean, owner's stamp to flyleaf, binding shows some shelfwear, spine rubbed/darkened. A very good copy. The first book in the Bastable family adventure series. The Bastable books were a big influence on C.S. Lewis and Arthur Ransome, among others.
[Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1899]
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[publisher: T. Fisher Unwin, London] Hardcover First Edition A lovely copy of the illustrated first edition of Edith Nesbit's beloved work, her first novel for children. When their widowed father"s business fails, the Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes themselves. No longer able to afford school, the children spend their time devising ingenious money-making schemes: from digging for treasure in their Lewisham garden to becoming highwaymen on Blackheath Common.Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates by the illustrators Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer. Collated, complete.With ten pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.From political activist and children's writer Edith Nesbit, author of such novels as 'The Railway Children' and 'Five Children and It'.The first edition of this much loved children's tale, identified by J.K. Rowling as her favourite of Nesbit's works. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally lovely. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Clear adhesive tape to front and rear pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with instances of light spotting. Very Good
[Bath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: ...
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