Edith E Lamb (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. no date given (circa 1920?); tan c w/pictorial inset on front; unpaginated, clean, unmarked, lovely colored illustrations. William Pratt, Arthur Dixon & G.J. Staniland (illustrator).

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No date of publication given. Ca. 1940s as a 1944 "New York Historical-Society Library" pastedown presentation label is on interior of front cover. ILLUSTRATED with 11 full-page, full-color paintings depicting children in the Bible with accompanying descriptive captions. 22 pages. LG7. William Pratt and Arthur Dixon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with gift inscription on title page, in a bright, price clipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased with short closed tears. 92 pages, illustrations in the text. Undated but appears early 1950s.…

First Edition. Worn copy in the original color printed boards. Some wear and tear as with age. Well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 93 pages. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; Children's Literature. Children's Anthology. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Worn copy in the original color printed boards. Some wear and tear as with age. Well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 93 pages. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; Children's Literature. Children's Anthology. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair +. Covered in clear pleastic tape. School oval stamp. In reasonably good condition for a school reader of its type. Contains 5 lovely colour plates by Molly Brett plus many black and white vintage. illustrations throughout. 192 pages. Stories, poems and puzzles. Size: 12mo. Molly Brett (illustrator). Ex School. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. "First re-issue in this edition 1957". A clean and tight hard cover with minor signs of wear to exterior. Tiny spot to front free endpaper recto. Lacks jacket // Octavo in 223 pages: illustrations; 21 cm. // Serialized in The London Magazine during 1905 before appearing in book form in 1906, Edith Nesbit's most enduring novel follows three children whose comfortable London life collapses when their father is taken away. They move with their mother to a cottage in the Yorkshire countryside, where the nearby railway line becomes the center of their world: they wave to passing trains, avert a landslip disaster, befriend a kindly old gentleman on the 9:15, and slowly uncover the truth of their father's wrongful imprisonment for espionage, a plot often read as an echo of the Dreyfus affair. Nesbit (1858-1924), a founding member of the Fabian Society with her husband Hubert Bland, brought to children's fiction an unsentimental, funny, and quietly radical sensibility. Here it shows in the family's genteel poverty, their aid to a Russian political exile, and children who act with real moral agency rather than serving as vehicles for adult instruction. The first edition was published in London by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., with illustrations by C. E. Brock. The story's place in British popular memory was sealed by the 1970 film directed by Lionel Jeffries, starring Jenny Agutter, Bernard Cribbins and Dinah Sheridan. ¶ Nesbit, E. 1858-1924. (Edith Families -- Great Britain -- Juvenile fiction. Country life -- Great Britain -- Juvenile fiction. Children of prisoners -- Juvenile fiction. Siblings -- Juvenile fiction. Country life -- Juvenile fiction. Family life -- Fiction. Railroads -- Fiction. Familles sans père -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. Familles -- Grande-Bretagne -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. Enfants de prisonniers -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. Frères et sœurs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. Siblings Children of prisoners Country life Families Fatherless families bookplates. book jackets. Paper (fibre product) case bindings. publishers' advertisements. children's books. Fiction Juvenile works Fiction.…

Hardback. Condition: very good. No Dust Jacket. picture cover pirtaes pointing canon at another ship in background, , fabric spine, tanned pages, no owner name, only light wear and aging. E.E. Briscoe, Savile Mumley and many more (illustrator).