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Author : Jan Wahl Publisher : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc Publication Date : 1966 For the Muffietumps are Victorian dolls who clamber out of the attic trunk each summer when the Bediggian family leaves for vacation. They wind clocks, scrub floors, bring in mail, and when the summer is over, they rush back to the attic-usually leaving behind a couple of toasting muffins or other unfinished…
Author : John Buchan Publisher : J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd Publication Date : 1964 A thriller, which follows the 'man on the run' Richard Hannay just before the outbreak of the First World War. Originally serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, 'The Thirty Nine Steps' is the first of five novels featuring Buchan's all-action hero Richard Hannay. This gallery is composed of photo scans of the printed…
Author : Freda Nichols Publisher : PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN DY R.&R.CLARK, LTD., EDINBURGH Publication Date : 1965 A book about working conditions in the Industrial Revolution in England, aimed at younger readers. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View…
Author : Eleanor Faijeon Publisher : Oxford University Press, London Publication Date : 1958 These seafaring tales begin on a street corner where Jim, a retired sailor, spends his days, passing the time telling a curious boy named Derry about life aboard his ship, the Rockinghorse. This gallery is composed of photo scans of the printed illustrations. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View…
Author : Noel Langley Publisher : Puffin Books Publication Date : 1966 First published as The Tate of the Land of Gren Giner by Arthur Darker, 1937 What happened after Aladdin married his princess and started to live happily ever after? This book tells the story of Aladdin's son, the noble prince Abu Ali, whose only fault was that he was far too nice. This gallery is composed of photo scans of the…
Author : James Reeves Publisher : Hamish Hamilton Publication Date : 1967 Before poor Will, the cobbler's son, left home and went to London, people did laugh at him because he could only speak in rhyme. But in London it was different: nobody made fun of him, and Will soon became a favourite in all the city for his strange way of talking. So much so, that when the City Poet fell ill on the day of…
Author : Archibald Marshall Publisher : First published in this edition 1966 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Publication Date : First published in Great Britain 1930 The no-frills story is about a very dragonish dragon whose appetite for humans makes the King call for its destruction - but all the princes who attempt to slay the dragon (and win the hand of the Princess) fail. How can the kingdom survive?…
Author : Leonard Clark Publisher : Published by Rupert Hart-Davis Publication Date : 1965 Poems This gallery is composed of photo scans of the printed illustrations. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View…
Author : Jan Wahl Publisher : : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York Publication Date : 1964 Children's book This gallery is composed of photo scans of the printed illustrations. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View…
Author : Edward Ardizzone Publisher : First published by The Bodley Head, UK Publication Date : 1970 Johnny’s Bad Day, a wordless picturebook published in 1970, was the British edition of a title that was originally commissioned by Doubleday in America, where it was called The Wrong Side of the Bed. In the cover image we see Johnny literally getting out of bed on the wrong side, with everything…
