Joan Aiken
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THE KINGDOM UNDER THE SEA AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.
Stock no. 1328766
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1971.
Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.
Delightful retelling of traditional East European folk tales. Dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Full-page colour pictures - exquisitely beautiful, black silhouettes against marble colours, plus numerous other silhouette illustrations. 104 pages. ISBN: 0224618822. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light vertical mark to centre of front cover. Slight foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with slight loss. Small red ink mark to front panel of wrapper, authors name partially rubbed to spine.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- ILLUSTRATED
- SILHOUETTES
- FOLK TALES
- EUROPE
- KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER
TALE OF A ONE-WAY STREET
Written by Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.
Stock no. 1328756
Published by Book Club Associates.
1978.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Original stories of imagination that take the reader to peculiar lands where magical things happen. Blue boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Bright colour illustrations and b/w silhouettes. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly faded to spine.
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- CHILDRENS
- FAIRY TALES
- SILHOUETTES
THE MOON'S REVENGE
Written by Joan Aiken.
Illustrated by Alan Lee.
Stock no. 1328627
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1987.
Very good condition.
Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0224024779. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. A few small marks to page margins.
SILVER JACKANORY
Written by Joan Aiken; Helen Cresswell; Dick King-Smith; Tony Robinson; et al.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake; et al..
Stock no. 1328375
Published by BBC Books.
1st
1991.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than 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. Minimal bumping to spine.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- ANTHOLOGY - STORY
- JACKANORY
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A CREEPY COMPANY
Written by Joan Aiken.
Stock no. 1323828
Published by Victor Gollancz.
1st
1993.
Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
An ensemble of spooky stories. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 156 pages. ISBN: 0575055448. SIGNED by the author for Robin to title-page. Spine very slightly bumped. Slight evidence of some pencil erasure to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is bright and complete.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- GHOST STORY
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.
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
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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