Millar h r illus (24 risultati)
Editore: Barefoot Books, ,1st Barefoot Books edition., Boston & Bath, 1993
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Da: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. 1st Edition. New, unopened and without flaw. Hardcover, 4.8" tall, 205 pp. Multiple copies available. Purchased new and kept in our bookshop's reserve storage for years. . .
Editore: Barefoot Books, ,1st Barefoot Books edition., Boston & Bath, 1993
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Da: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. 1st Edition. New, unopened and without flaw. Hardcover, 4.8" tall, 205 pp. Multiple copies available. Purchased new and kept in our bookshop's reserve storage for years. . .
Editore: Barefoot Books, ,1st Barefoot Books edition., Boston & Bath, 1993
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- Prima edizione
Da: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. 1st Edition. New, unopened and without flaw. Hardcover, 4.8" tall, 205 pp. Multiple copies available. Purchased new and kept in our bookshop's reserve storage for years. . .
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: Coward-McCann, Inc
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Da: Neutral Balloon Books, Ardmore, PA, U.S.A.Neutral Balloon Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Fair. Wet Magic by E. Nesbit & Illustrated by H.R. Millar. Hardcover published by Coward-McCann, Inc. Text looks free of notations/underlining. Pages, paste downs, and text block have foxing. Dust jacket is torn and has soiling. DJ has been custom fitted with an archival wrap.
Editore: The Folio Society 1995, 1995
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Da: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nuova ZelandaHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Aggiungi al carrelloSuper octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Editore: Mayflower Books 1980, 1980
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Da: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nuova ZelandaHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Aggiungi al carrelloFACSIMILE REPRINT, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Editore: Macmillan 1980, 1980
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Da: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nuova ZelandaHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Aggiungi al carrelloFACSIMILE REPRINT, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Editore: Macmillan and Co., London, 1912
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Da: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, CanadaAttic Books (ABAC, ILAB)
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. xlix, 455, [5] p. 20 cm. B&w drawings. Burgundy cloth. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped, some soiling to covers. A few chips and tears from when edges cut.
Editore: Walter Scott 1894, 1894
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Da: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nuova ZelandaHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Aggiungi al carrelloFIRST EDITION, EX-LIBRARY, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece, xvi + 362pp + 16pp catalogue to rear, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to board extrems & edges, light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy cracking…to gutters, minimal library markings).
Editore: Macmillan, London,, 1980
Da: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australialamdha books
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Aggiungi al carrelloFacsimile hardcover octavo of the 1910 edition. Orange cloth boards with upper board and spine silver gilt titlings and decoration; orange endpapers; 333pp., monochrome illustrations; top edges dyed umber and yellow ribbon marker. Owner's name. Mild spotting to upper text block edge with a few tiny marks otherwise; ribbon frayed… at end. Very good to near fine otherwise and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Editore: Macmillan, London,, 1980
Da: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australialamdha books
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Aggiungi al carrelloFacsimile hardcover octavo of the 1924 edition. Green cloth boards with upper board and spine gilt titlings and rules, green endpapers; 280pp., monochrome illustrations; top edges dyed green and green ribbon marker. Fraying to upper board edges with upper text block edge slightly faded. Very good to near fine otherwise and wrapp…er now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
The Story of the Bold Pecopin, A Legend of the Rhine
Hugo, Victor; Birrell, Eleanor and Augustine (trans.); Millar, H. R. (illus.)
Editore: Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1902
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Da: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A.
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good+. Black cloth, lettering and illustration in yellow on upper board, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; 8vo; pp. vii, 92, plus frontispiece and 7 illustrated plates. Cloth water-stained; spine tips and corners bumped and a little frayed; some faint foxing.
Altre immaginiEditore: Walter Scott 1894, 1884
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Da: Cotswolds Rare Books, OXFORDSHIRE, Regno UnitoCotswolds Rare Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. A very clean, bright copy.
Editore: Blackie and Son n.d.
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Da: High Barn Books, Lancaster, Regno UnitoHigh Barn Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloFair hardback (edgewear and covers a little grubby, pages lightly age toned but clean and unmarked apart from a small notation in the bottom margin of coloured frontispiece). 96 pp 4to hardback with pictorial cover and blue cloth spine. Pictorial back pastedown. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale.
Editore: William Heinemann,, London,, 1907
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Da: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Regno UnitoBurwood Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 306. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Illustrated throughout. Neat blind stamp on front endpaper. Covers slightly spotted, scuffed and stained with slight rubbing along hinges and at spine ends, otherwise very good.
Editore: Cassell & Co. Ltd., London
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Da: Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman', Norwich, Regno UnitoRobert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman'
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Aggiungi al carrelloHalf-Leather. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. N.d. (c. early 1900s). Comprehensive criminological/historical overview, including many case-histories from Britain and around the world, pub. in three volumes: Vol. I - xv+[i]+464pp. (moderately scuffed spine slightly rubbed at top/tail, but bright/robust; boards lightly scuffed/scored…, and slightly worn at corners); Vol. II - xiii+[i]+464pp. (title label to spine chipped at edges, but spine clean/bright/robust; boards quite clean/crisp; p.242 fastened at gutter with two pieces of sellotape at top/tail of gutter margin); Vol. III - xii+[ii]+464pp. (title label to spine chipped at edges, but spine clean/bright; lightly soiled boards lightly worn at top corners; split to front hinge (joint not affected); book very slightly shaken, but all complete). All vols. in matching binding of half black leather, plain charcoal boards; plain rules blind-stamped to front/rear boards; spines with gilt (quite bright)/blind-stamped decorative rules, and leather title label with titling blocked in gilt (quite bright); all edges speckled red; illus. bw. drawings/repros./photos. All vols. have sporadic slight (occasionally moderate) foxing to endpapers/text, but pages generally clean/bright/quite crisp. All complete/intact. No inscriptions. A weighty set at approx. 5100g (packaged), hence overseas customers are welcome to contact us prior to ordering to ascertain additional shipping charges incurred. A set in Good condition overall. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by NORMAN HARDY, H.M. BROCK, H.R. MILLAR, T.H. ROBINSON et al (illustratore). Hardback.
Editore: Shakespeare Head Press,, Oxford,, 1939
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Da: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Regno UnitoBurwood Books
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Condizione: Usato - Molto buono
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dustjacket. Small 4to. pp 248. Original publisher's green cloth, colour illustration onset to cover, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Colour frontis, map of Systurthia and six black and white illustrations. Fantastical children's adventure. No date (193…9). Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "With the author's kind regards, John F. Macpherson 1939." An edition came out in 1908. Neat gift inscription on front endpaper from one 'Uncle Tom', otherwise very good indeed. Signedes.
Altre immaginiEditore: Shakespeare Head Press,, Oxford,, 1939
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- Prima edizione
Da: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Regno UnitoBurwood Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dustjacket. Small 4to. pp 303. Original publisher's green cloth, colour illustration onset to cover, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Frontis and three tipped in colour illustrations, map of Systurthia and six black and white illustrations. Fantastical…children's adventure. No date (1939). Neat gift inscription on front endpaper from one 'Uncle Tom', otherwise very good indeed.
Editore: William Heinemann, 1905
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Da: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Full brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine & front board, black illustration to front board, publisher's logo on rear board, 8" x 6", black & white plates and in-text illustrations and decorations, 248 pp. Slight soiling to boards, rear internal hinge possibly re-glued (endpape…rs are split but quite solid), bookseller's label to rear endpaper. Generally a nice copy of an early Rackham title. Identified merely as "a later issue" in Latimore-Haskell, p. 25. (First issue should have gilt on the cover illustration, this one is entirely in black.).
Editore: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909
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Da: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, Regno UnitoBarter Books Ltd
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Condizione: Usato - Buono
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Aggiungi al carrelloRed hardback cloth cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded with edge-wear - joint starting to split toward upper rear cover. Bookplate to front pastedown. Occasional light foxing. Off-setting to endpapers and some plates. Teg. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 281pp. Colour frontis +…15 colour wash plates.
Altre immaginiEditore: George Newnes Ltd, London
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- Prima edizione
Da: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, Regno UnitoJacket and Cloth
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EUR 319,06
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. No DJ. 1st Edition. Published: n.d. (c1904). First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth with red, blue and gilt illustration and titles to front and spine. Illustrated by R.H. Millar. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Tightly bound with lightly toned intact e…ndpapers and strong hinges. Light spotting to front and rear pages with occasional spots and marks to other pages. Missing pages to front. Present pages are ffep, title page and dedication page followed by page 1. No colour frontis. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 236. Size: 22cm by 14cm. AUTHOR: Edith Nesbit(Edith Bland; 1858 - 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published herbooks for childrenasE. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. A political activist and co-founder of theFabian Society, asocialistorganisation later affiliated to theLabour Party. Born in Kennington, Surrey, daughter of an agricultural chemist,John Collis Nesbit and Sarah Green (née Alderton). In 1877, at the age of 18, Nesbit met the bank clerkHubert Bland, and at seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880. Their marriage was tumultuous. In 1886, when she discovered that her friend,Alice Hoatson, was pregnant by him. She had previously agreed to adopt Hoatsons child and allow Hoatson to live with her as their housekeeper. After she discovered the truth, she suggested that Hoatson and the baby,Rosamund, should leave; her husband threatened to leave Edith. Hoatson remained with them as a housekeeper and secretary and became pregnant by Bland again 13 years later. Edith again adopted Hoatsons child, John. Nesbit admired the artist andMarxiansocialistWilliam Morris. The couple joined the founders of theFabian Societyin 1884,and jointly edited its journalToday. Nesbit was a prolific lecturer and writer on socialism in the 1880s. She and her husband co-wrote under the pseudonym "Fabian Bland". She was a guest speaker at theLondon School of Economics, which had been founded by other Fabian Society members. On 20 February 1917, some three years after Bland died, Nesbit married Thomas "the Skipper" Tucker inWoolwich, where he was captain of theWoolwich Ferry. Towards the end of her life, Nesbit moved first to Crowlink. Nesbit died in 1924. Nesbits biographer, Julia Briggs, credits Nesbit with inventing the childrensadventure story. The creator of modernchildrens fantasy, she influenced many later writers, includingP. L. Travers(ofMary Poppins),J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewiswho paid heed to her in theNarniaseriesand mentions the Bastable children inThe Magicians Nephew. Nesbit also wrote for adults, including eleven novels, short stories, and four collections of horror stories. BOOK RESUME: The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in an accidental fire. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. The Phoenix explains that the carpet is a magic one that will grant them three wishes a day. The five children go on many adventures, which eventually wear out their magic carpet. The adventures are continued and concluded in the third book of the trilogy, The Story of the Amulet (1906). H.R. MILLAR (illustratore).
Altre immaginiEditore: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909
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Da: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, Regno UnitoJacket and Cloth
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. No DJ. Published: 1909. DESCRIPTION: Red cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Lightly sunned spine. Tightly bound with very lightly toned intact endpapers and strong hinges. Light spotting to preliminaries and rear pages. All plates present. DJ Condit…ion: No DJ Pages xi, 281. Size: 8vo 20cm by 13cm. AUTHOR: Edith Nesbit(Edith Bland; 1858 - 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published herbooks for childrenasE. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of theFabian Society, asocialistorganisation later affiliated to theLabour Party. Born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of an agricultural chemist,John Collis Nesbit and Sarah Green (née Alderton). In 1877, at the age of 18, Nesbit met the bank clerkHubert Bland, and at seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880. Their marriage was tumultuous. In 1886, when she discovered that her friend,Alice Hoatson, was pregnant by him. She had previously agreed to adopt Hoatsons child and allow Hoatson to live with her as their housekeeper. After she discovered the truth, she suggested that Hoatson and the baby,Rosamund, should leave; her husband threatened to leave Edith. Hoatson remained with them as a housekeeper and secretary and became pregnant by Bland again 13 years later. Edith again adopted Hoatsons child, John. Nesbit admired the artist andMarxiansocialistWilliam Morris. The couple joined the founders of theFabian Societyin 1884,and jointly edited its journalToday. Nesbit was a prolific lecturer and writer on socialism in the 1880s. She and her husband co-wrote under the pseudonym "Fabian Bland". She was a guest speaker at theLondon School of Economics, which had been founded by other Fabian Society members. On 20 February 1917, some three years after Bland died, Nesbit married Thomas "the Skipper" Tucker inWoolwich, where he was captain of theWoolwich Ferry. Towards the end of her life, Nesbit moved first to Crowlink. Nesbit died in 1924, probably from lung cancer (she "smoked incessantly"),and was buried in the churchyard ofSt Mary in the Marsh. Nesbits biographer, Julia Briggs, names her "the first modern writer for children", who "helped to reverse the great tradition of childrens literature inaugurated byLewis Carroll,George MacDonaldandKenneth Grahame, in turning away from theirsecondary worldsto the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels". Briggs also credits Nesbit with inventing the childrensadventure story. The creator of modernchildrens fantasy, she influenced many later writers, includingP. L. Travers(ofMary Poppins),J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewiswho paid heed to her in theNarniaseriesand mentions the Bastable children inThe Magicians Nephew. Nesbit also wrote for adults, including eleven novels, short stories, and four collections of horror stories. MILLAR, R.H (illustratore).
Altre immaginiEditore: T Fisher Unwin, London, 1907
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- Prima edizione
Da: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, Regno UnitoJacket and Cloth
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EUR 722,39
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No DJ. 1st Edition. Published: 1907. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Red cloth with gilt titles and illustration to front and spine. Illustrated with 48 black and white drawings by H.R. Millar. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear to corners, edges and chipped spine ends. Sunned…spine and margins. Tightly bound with intact endpapers and strong hinges. Inscription to ffep dated1907. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 352. Size: 10cm by 13cm. AUTHOR: Edith Nesbit(Edith Bland; 1858 - 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published herbooks for childrenasE. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. A political activist and co-founder of theFabian Society, asocialistorganisation later affiliated to theLabour Party. Born in Kennington, Surrey, daughter of an agricultural chemist,John Collis Nesbit and Sarah Green (née Alderton). In 1877, at the age of 18, Nesbit met the bank clerkHubert Bland, and at seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880. Their marriage was tumultuous. In 1886, when she discovered that her friend,Alice Hoatson, was pregnant by him. She had previously agreed to adopt Hoatsons child and allow Hoatson to live with her as their housekeeper. After she discovered the truth, she suggested that Hoatson and the baby,Rosamund, should leave; her husband threatened to leave Edith. Hoatson remained with them as a housekeeper and secretary and became pregnant by Bland again 13 years later. Edith again adopted Hoatsons child, John. Nesbit admired the artist andMarxiansocialistWilliam Morris. The couple joined the founders of theFabian Societyin 1884,and jointly edited its journalToday. Nesbit was a prolific lecturer and writer on socialism in the 1880s. She and her husband co-wrote under the pseudonym "Fabian Bland". She was a guest speaker at theLondon School of Economics, which had been founded by other Fabian Society members. On 20 February 1917, some three years after Bland died, Nesbit married Thomas "the Skipper" Tucker inWoolwich, where he was captain of theWoolwich Ferry. Towards the end of her life, Nesbit moved first to Crowlink. Nesbit died in 1924. Nesbits biographer, Julia Briggs, credits Nesbit with inventing the childrensadventure story. The creator of modernchildrens fantasy, she influenced many later writers, includingP. L. Travers(ofMary Poppins),J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewiswho paid heed to her in theNarniaseriesand mentions the Bastable children inThe Magicians Nephew. Nesbit also wrote for adults, including eleven novels, short stories, and four collections of horror stories. BOOK RESUME: The enchanted castle is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathy, who discover it while exploring during the school holidays. The lake, groves and marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a fairy-tale setting, and then in the middle of the maze in the rose garden, they find a sleeping fairy-tale princess. The 'princess' tells them that the castle is full of magic, and they almost believe her. She shows them the treasures of the castle, including a magic ring she says is a ring of invisibility, but when it actually turns her invisible she panics and admits that she is the housekeepers niece, Mabel, and was just play-acting. The children soon find that the ring has other magical powers such as making the 'Ugly-Wugglies' (Guy Fawkes style dummies they had made to swell the audience at one of their play-performances) come to life. They eventually discover that the ring is actually granting their own wishes, and that the disturbing results stem from their failure to specify those wishes precisely. The Enchanted Castle was written for both children and adults. It combines descriptions of the imaginative play of children, reminiscent of The Story of the Treasure Seekers, with a magic more muted than in her major fantasies such as The Story of the Amulet. H.R. MILLAR (illustratore).
Altre immaginiSnarleyyow 1897 [Leather Bound]
Marryat, Frederick,,Marryat, Frederick, Dog fiend,Hannay, David,,Millar, H. R. illus
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Da: Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, IndiaGyan Books Pvt. Ltd.
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EUR 35,59
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Aggiungi al carrelloLeather Bound. Condizione: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine…lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1897. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 448, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 448 448.
