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Title: Five of Us—and Madeline Title Record # 2178108
Author: E. Nesbit
Date: 1925-00-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Language: English
Note:
  • Posthumous publication, completed by Nesbit's daughter
  • Borderline genre (see Amazon review, below)
  • Published 1925 in the posthumous collection Five of Us—and Madeline assembled and edited by Nesbit's daughter Rosamund Sharp (Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland), with two fantasy short stories • probably as pp 1-284 in 310-page eds. (inferred from multiple library records; see The Last of the Dragons, probably as p285-98)
Synopsis:
  • Adventures of five siblings (same in number as the Bastable Children series and the Five Children or Psammead series, but three different familes); narrated by one of the boys, namely Clifford (same as Oswald Bastable narrates the Bastable Children series)
  • Amazon review: "... except for a single, incongruous episode where the eldest boy solves a real burglary by dreaming that he is a worm, the book lacks the beautifully imaginative fantasy sequences that are a hallmark of Edith Nesbit's creative works ..." -- Molly Grue (reviewer)
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Five of Us—and Madeline 1925-00-00 E. Nesbit T. Fisher Unwin  
6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
310
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Nora S. Unwin Checkmark
Five of Us—and Madeline 1926-01-00 E. Nesbit Adelphi Company     310
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
Five of Us—and Madeline 1932-02-00 E. Nesbit Greenberg  
$?$: US dollar
310
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
Five of Us—and Madeline 1958-00-00 E. Nesbit London: E. Benn; New York: Coward-McCann     192
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Peter Freeman (artist)  
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