Five of Us—and Madeline
| 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 |
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1958 | London: E. Benn; New York: Coward-McCann | Hardcover | Omnibus | Peter Freeman (artist) | 192 |