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Five of Us—and Madeline

E. Nesbit

First published 1925
Publisher T. Fisher Unwin
Format Hardcover
Type Omnibus
Cover art Nora S. Unwin
Pages 310
Price 6/-

    1 novel and 2 fantasy short stories
  • Images and descriptions provided by booksellers at ABEbooks.com establish for the 1st ed. (7 copies of 4 printings, viewed 2017-04-07): • red cloth cover: 1st printing (Unwin 1925), gilt lettering • blue cloth cover: 2nd-4th printings (Unwin 1926; Benn 1928 and 1931) All contain 1 color frontispiece and 6 b/w plates. Amazon dealers show blue covers only, including as 1925.
  • WorldCat library records of 2nd-4th printings: {{OCLC|271740032}}, {{OCLC|56113294}}, {{OCLC|811008664}}

  • 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]

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Five of Us—and Madeline E. Nesbit Novel
275 The Last of the Dragons E. Nesbit Short Story
291 Princess Zuleika of Rosyposia E. Nesbit Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Five of Us—and Madeline 1926 Adelphi Company Hardcover Omnibus 310
Five of Us—and Madeline 1932 Greenberg Hardcover Omnibus 310
Five of Us—and Madeline Cover 1958 London: E. Benn; New York: Coward-McCann Hardcover Omnibus Peter Freeman (artist) 192