• Publication: Five of Us—and MadelinePublication Record # 88870
• Author: E. Nesbit
• Date: 1925-00-00
• Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 310
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: OMNIBUS
• Cover: Five of Us—and Madeline by Nora S. Unwin
• Notes:

  • 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]
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 27-27967
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 317762995

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Five of Us—and Madeline • interior artwork by Nora S. Unwin
• 9 • Five of Us—and Madeline • juvenile • novel by E. Nesbit
• 275 • The Last of the Dragons • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 284 •  The Last of the Dragons • interior artwork by Nora S. Unwin
• 291 • Princess Zuleika of Rosyposia • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 298 •  Princess Zuleika of Rosyposia • interior artwork by Nora S. Unwin