UNDER THE SUN
Written by John Verney, Patricia Campbell
Illustrated by Antony Maitland, Quentin Blake, John Verney, Brian Wildsmith, et al.
Published by Constable Young Books Ltd.
in 1964
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UNDER THE SUN
Written by John Verney, Patricia Campbell.
Illustrated by Antony Maitland, Quentin Blake, John Verney, Brian Wildsmith, et al..
Stock no. 1329239
1st.
1964.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A collection of srories, poems and articles. Illustrated by 'many artists'. Black and white illustrations throughout. Peach cloth with gilt title to spine. 351 pages. 9.5 x 6". Spine slightly bumped. Endpapers partially browned. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and price-cut, small tear to lower edge of rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- The Brain is Wider than the Sky (poem) by Emily Dickinson
- David and Jonathan by Arthur Calder Marshall
- Left-Hand Pages Only by H.F. Ellis
- The Yellow Face by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Bustle in the House (poem) by Emily Dickinson
- The Bravest Man I Ever Knew by Sir John Hunt
- Gone Fishing by Spike Milligan
- Pied Beauty (poem) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Pearl of Love by H.G. Wells
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
- Show Your Hand by Wilfred Blunt
- I'll Never Love Thee More (poem) by James Graham
- The Woodcutter's House by Robert Nathan
- Nicknames by Edward Blishen
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- Bright is the Ring of Words (poem) by R.L. Stevenson
- The Other Foot by Ray Bradbury
- Boswell Meets Johnson by James Boswell
- Fanny Burney On Johnson
- Requeim (poem) by R.L. Stevenson
- Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper by Siriol Hugh Jones
- La Vie Boheme by Nadine Gordimer
- Journey of the Chinese Honey-Seller by James Morris
- Knots, Maps and Dots by Gerald Leach
- The Open Window by Saki
- Tea at the Embassy by John Verney
- Abraham Lincoln's Reply
- Stanza (poem) by Emily Bronte
- A Piece of Pie by Damon Runyon
- On The Billow With Hornblower by John Bayley
- To Helen (poem) by Edgar Allan Poe
- Going Back to School by Max Beerbohm
- Edward Old-Fella-Scribble-Too-Much by Edward Blishen
- Dress by Lord Chesterfield
- Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
- A Wizard's Duel by T.H.White
- Personal Triumph by Patrick Campbell
- Chance Meeting by Carola Oman
- Huck's Escape by Mark Twain
- Last Man In (play) by J.C. Trewin
- Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (poem) by Emily Dickinson
- Enemies by Anton Tchehov
- I Think I Could Turn (poem) by Walt Whitman
- Women by Lord Chesterfield
- The Duke of Wellington Enters Politics by Benjamin Disraeli
- Teenagers Are People by Caroline Wedgwood Benn
- Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel (poem) by Leigh Hunt
- A Matter of Fact by Rudyard Kipling
- A Satirical Elegy by Jonathan Swift
- By The Ton by John Bladwinson
- Keep Them Writing by Siriol Hugh Jones
- Pot Pourri From A Surrey Garden (poem) by John Betjeman
- Maddened By Mystery by Stephen Leacock
- On The Death of a Favourite Dormouse (poem)
- Cowboys and Indians by John Bayley
- The Parlour by Adam Rowntree
- Finis by Walter Savage Landor