The Complete History Of The Bastable Family
£45.00
Publisher
Ernest Benn Limited.
Place
London
Date
1928
Synopsis
[contents:] the story of the treasure seekers, the wouldbegoods, the new treasure seekers.
Item Description
FIRST COMBINED EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 943 + [1] pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt with gilt block of family on front board. Some wear to extremities, sunning of spine, foxing of flyleaves and edges, with a few traces elsewhere; otherwise a very good copy. Manuscript copy of of poem, To our Nannie, attributed to R. L. S (presumably Robert Louis Stevenson, signed Mary Joey Derek. 1933 Signature on front pastedown. Illustrated by colour frontispiece and by 46 plates, numbered in text. An omnibus volume of the three Bastable novels, children's fantasy stories by Edith Nesbit (1858-1924), best known as author of The Railway Children (1906).
[Stock No. 29229]
