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The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby

Palmer Brown

First published 1956
Series Anna Lavinia #2
Publisher Harper & Brothers
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Cover art Palmer Brown
Pages 137
Price $2.50


The second book is more a fantasy, the first more a nonsense adventure (according to online coverage misplaced by this visitor December 2018).

  • 1st edition, undated
  • Price from capsule review in Newsday 1956-05-19 p28-29, "On Books by Hal Burton" (all Children's Books) and brief review by Alice L. Robinson, Childhood Education 33:1 p34 (1956-57, issue 1) (September?).
    Both those notices report 138 pages.
  • Library records (3, below) report 137.
  • One dealer at ABEbooks as of 2018-12-05 provides (bi=30049288720) a clear image of the title page (illustrated, no date) and images of the book cover (green cloth with black lettering) and jacket (including front inside flap, which another visitor may be able to read).
    The busy front jacket of this book nearly matches the front cover of the 1973 Avon Camelot paperback --all except unobtrusive data at upper corners of the latter.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby 1957 Methuen Hardcover Novel 133
The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby Cover 1973 Avon Camelot Trade Paperback Novel 15446 Palmer Brown 137
The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby Cover 2012 New York Review of Books Hardcover Novel Palmer Brown 137