Five of Us—and Madeline
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Overview:
- Title: Five of Us—and Madeline
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Year: 1925
- Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
- Price: 6/-
- Pages: 310
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: The Last of the Dragons
- Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Published for the 1925 Christmas gift season (possibly earlier)
- Interior art consists of a full-color frontispiece plate, plus 6 additional b&w plates. The frontispiece and the first 4 plates are for "Five of Us - And Madeline"; and there is one plate for each of the other two stories.
- Price from publisher advertisement "T. Fisher Unwin's Xmas Gift Books" The Scotsman 1925-11-26 p3, this one under heading E. Nesbit's Latest & Last Book
- Red cloth cover with gilt lettering and decoration.
- Dust jacket illustration matches frontispiece
- Title page: "Illustrated by Nora S. Unwin"
- According to ODNB: "In 1925, while still at college, Unwin received her first commission, from her great-uncle, the publisher T. Fisher Unwin, for a black and white drawing for the dust jacket for a children's book by Edith Nesbit (Five of Us and Madeline)." --Alan Horne, "Unwin, Nora Spicer (1907–1982)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/69373, accessed 6 April 2017]