Joan Aiken
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MY BRILLIANT CAREER
Written by Miles Franklin; Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Dodie Masterman.
Stock no. 2138193
Published by Folio Society.
1st thus
1983.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Introducation by Aiken. Blue pictorial cloth with gilt. B/w drawings. 255 pages. Spine is browned. Slip case is very good - unevenly browned.
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- LITERATURE
MY BRILLIANT CAREER
Written by Miles Franklin; Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Dodie Masterman.
Stock no. 2135942
Published by Folio Society.
1st thus
1983.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Introducation by Aiken. Blue pictorial cloth with gilt. B/w drawings. 255 pages. Spine is browned. Slip case is very good - some fading along edges; couple of small nicks at corners.
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- FOLIO SOCIETY
- LITERATURE
THE LAST SLICE OF RAINBOW AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Margaret Walty.
Stock no. 2135609
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st thus
1985.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and Colour illustrations. Stories for younger children. ISBN: 0224022970. Some knocks to spine and corners. Pale page edge browning; a few margin marks. Wrapper is edge-creased with one repaired closed tear; some fading to spine.
THE MOON'S REVENGE
Written by Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Alan Lee.
Stock no. 2135557
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1987.
Very good condition.
Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0224024779.
PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK
Written by Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.
Stock no. 1318522
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1986.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Goodnight Stories. Red boards, gilt titles to spine and vignette to front. Vivid full-page colour illustrations plus silhouettes to text. ISBN: 0224028561. Spine and corners bumped. Light tea/coffee(?) stain to foredge of textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed with light foxing to the flaps.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- SILHOUETTES
THE CUCKOO TREE
Written by Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Pat Marriott.
Stock no. 1402899
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1971.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Dido Twite and Captain Hughes set out from Chichester Harbour with urgent dispatches for London. Their coach overturns in the middle of nowhere leading Dido to become involved in some 'havey cavey goings in' with smugglers, witches, kidnappers and treasonous pirates. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illus. 251 pages. ISBN: 0224005146. Spine and corners bumped. Ex -Library with stamps to front and rear endpapers. Textblock edge a little grubby but contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge worn. Spine is darkened.
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- CHILDRENS
GHOSTLY BEASTS
Written by Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Amanda Harvey.
Stock no. 1605767
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
2002.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A collection of short stories and poems. Large format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0224064630.
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- CHILDRENS
SILVER JACKANORY
Written by Joan Aiken; Helen Cresswell; Dick King-Smith; Tony Robinson; et al.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake; et al..
Stock no. 1202908
Published by BBC Books.
1st
1991.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
To mark the 25th birthday of BBC TV's Jackanory a group of well-known writers were asked to write a story on the theme of silver... Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 2 stories illustrated by Blake. ISBN: 0563361719. Front joint is cracked. Light page edge browning else contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and grubby, a tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel.
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- CHILDRENS
- ANTHOLOGY - STORY
- JACKANORY
Joan Aiken
Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Med...
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