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Wells Gardner Darton & Co., 1906. 3rd edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated maroon cloth (casing shaken and rather rubbed at edges - in protective cover). Pp. viii + 309 + publisher's catalogue, illus with b&w frontispiece with tissue-guard, pictorial title and 19 b&w plates by C.E. Brock (inner hinges loosened; previous owner's neat 1915 gift inscription on front free endpaper).
Synopsis
The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906. It tells the tale of children whose father is mysteriously taken away one night and they move with their mother to live in the country, where the railway and those who work and travel on it become the center of their lives.
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- Bookseller
- Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169693
- Title
- THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
- Author
- NESBIT E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Wells Gardner Darton & Co., 1906
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.