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The Five Children

E. Nesbit

First published 1930
Series Five Children UniverseFive Children
Publisher Coward-McCann
Format Hardcover
Type Omnibus
Pages xi+212+290+306
Price $3.00

  • 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).