First Edition wrapper by Terry Freeman

MYSTERY MINE First Published 1959 by Newnes A Lone Pine adventure set around Goathland and Whitby in the North Yorkshire Moors.

First edition: dark green boards with black blocking, or light green with gold blocking; top page edges not coloured; two different map eps; no illustrations; 247pp full colour wrap-round dustwrapper by Terry Freeman; cp 10/6

Other Editions:

CBC edition dustwrapper courtesy of Mike McGary

Children's Book Club c1960?: Hardback edition; no date; blue boards, black lettering on spine; both maps; 247pp; dramatic dustwrapper illustration by S G Mackie different to that on the first edition.

Hamlyn 'Merlin' 1968: Paperback edition; 188pp; 2 maps in text; colour cover and six b/w illustrations by Michael Whittlesea; cp 2/6; Merlin number M28.

Merlin edition cover

Collins Budget edition

Collins Budget 1972: Hardback edition; 123x188mm; pictorial boards; revised edition; 157pp; one map; ISBN No. 0-00-160231-4; no cover price.

Armada 1979: Paperback edition; Armada number C1612; 157pp; one map only; no illustrations; cover not credited; cp 60p.

Armada cover

Goodchild edition dustwrapper

Goodchild 1987: Hardback, revised edition; brown cloth, gold blocking along spine only; 243pp; no map, no illustrations; wrap-around dustwrapper picture by Gordon King; cp £7.25.

Girls Gone By 2011: New edition, re-establishing the full text of the original and with extra articles etc as described: paperback; 130x190mm; 280pp; both maps, on pages 28-9 and 30-31; ISBN: 978-1-84745-120-0. The cover artwork by Terry Freeman is reproduced in full on the cover (as can be seen in the enlarged picture). Introduction by ViV Turner is followed by a short piece from Peter Griffiths of his memory of the cover artist. Mark O'Hanlon's introduction to the author follows, and some further information from Laura Hicks. The Publishing History follows - written by Mike McGarry with full illustrations of the other editions of the book, and including an illustration by Carlos Giménez from the Spanish edition; the publishers 'blurb from the front flap of the dustwrapper reproduced in Appendix I; Appendix II has the full setof Michael Whittlesea's illustrations from the Merlin paperback edition.

cover of the new paperback edition Girls Gone By 2011

Foreign edition:

Molino 1969:
Spanish hardback edition as MISTERIO EN LA MINA

Spanish edition cover by Badia Camps

Number 90 in the publisher's Coleccion Aventura series. Translation by Pol de Ramirez; 208pp; six black and white illustrations in the text, artist not credited and signature indecipherable. Cover (and presumably dustwrapper) artwork by Badia Camps. [For information on this edition, and illustration, thanks to Steven Handy]