Published by Heninemann Educational Books, 1990
ISBN 10: 0670829048 ISBN 13: 9780670829040
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Type: Hardback A book to charm youngsters-poems beautifully illustrated by Tessa Lovatt-Smith. First Printing. Hardcover Book in FINE Condition with a Near Fine Jacket. Blue cloth silver-foil lettered, very clean, tight and solid. All poems illustrated. Blue glossy jacket with pandas on front, clean and unmarked with slight rumpling of spine head and small colorless scratch on upper edge. 112 pages. 7.5 x 9 inches. 1990, Viking/ Penguin Books, USA.
Published by Heninemann Educational Books, 1979
ISBN 10: 0435187511 ISBN 13: 9780435187514
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop, Newport, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Former High School Book, with pocket on front endpaper and a few stamps, tag on jacket spine. Otherwise, clean, tight and solid book. Pages quite clean, no markings. Tight, solid and square volume. A wide-ranging survey of Englsh novels, beginning with Nashes' "The Unfortunate Traveller' with the final novel H. G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds". Between these two, the English novel developed from its Elizabethan beginnings to the Regency and Victorian years. In each of the fifty essays, Phelps gives a brief biographical account, then summarizes the plot, and finally offers a critical commentary. Earlt novels include "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Moll Flanders", "Gulliver's Travels". Authors include Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith, Walpole, Austen, Brontes, Scott, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, Hardy, and Conrad. 573 pages. 5.4 x 8.2 inches. 1978, Heninemann Educational Books, London, England.