The Five Children

Overview:

  • Title: The Five Children
  • Author: E. Nesbit
  • Year: 1930
  • Publisher: Coward-McCann
  • Price: $3.00
  • Pages: xi+212+290+306
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: The Story of the Amulet
  • Notes:
    • Price from notice by Anne Carroll Moore, "Some Books for Children from the Early Fall Lists" NY Herald Tribune 1930-09-28 pSM8. (1930-11-30 is the Christmas book number.)
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with evidently original, undecorated cover: -- inscribed, Christmas 1930 -- frontispiece, title page No illustrator credit. Coloured frontispiece is the only plate. It illustrates the first story, p121, is not by Millar, and is signed "B...." (clear but not legible).
    • Reginald1 gives page count 808 (the sum 212+290+306).