• Publication: The Little BookroomPublication Record # 602077
• Author: Eleanor Farjeon
• Date: 1955-00-00
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Price:
  12/6^?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).
• Pages: xii+302
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: The Little Bookroom by Edward Ardizzone
• Notes: 1st ed. OCLC: 20574029, with list of Contents (27) Price from listing Manchester Guardian 1955-11-09 p5 "Books Received" Data from Wikipedia: both biographies and book article with front cover image LCCN: 56-28856 and OCLC: 25435271 give page-count 320 pages, no illustrator credit. LC catalog shows the correct information, as stated here, for the 1st US ed. (Oxford, 1956).
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 56-28856
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 20574029 25435271

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Little Bookroom • interior artwork by Edward Ardizzone
• The King and the Corn • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The King's Daughter Cries for the Moon • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• Young Kate • short story by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Flower Without a Name • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Goldfish • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Clumber Pup • short story by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Miracle of the Poor Island • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Girl Who Kissed the Peach-Tree • short story by Eleanor Farjeon
• Westwoods • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Barrel-Organ • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Giant and the Mite • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Little Dressmaker • (1934) • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Lady's Room • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Seventh Princess • short story by Eleanor Farjeon
• Leaving Paradise • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Little Lady's Roses • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• In Those Days • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Connemara Donkey • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Tims • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• Pennyworth • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• And I Dance Mine Own Child • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Lovebirds • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• San Fairy Ann • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Glass Peacock • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Kind Farmer • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• Old Surly and the Boy • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon
• Pannychis • short fiction by Eleanor Farjeon