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Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1966. Very good (a few spots on page edges, and a little tear on the first free endpaper) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, a couple of closed tears, and one quarter-inch missing chip along the top edge; price-clipped). The revised version of Moore's 1933 biography of the famous writer of children's stories. . 1st Edition thus. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1966. 313 pp, 8 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "Publication of this first biography ever written about E. Nesbit (1858-1924), whose books for children have delighted readers young and old, is a literary event of major importance. Mrs. Langley Moore has written a new introduction to the present edition, telling a number of things that had to be omitted from the original work, when so many of E. Nesbit's contemporaries or members of her family were still alive. Also, the entire book has been revised and relevant material that either had to be left out originally, or has been discovered since, has been added. Edith Nesbit married Hubert Bland, a young journalist and enthusiastic Socialist, in 1880. He took the chair at the first meeting of the Fabian Society and both were active in the Fabian movement. When Bland, while ill, was defrauded by a business partner, Edith Nesbit was forced to earn the family's living. She began to write poems, short stories, and… Read More