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| First edition wrapper courtesy of Richard Griffiths |
Jillies series, first book. Set in Blakeney, Norfolk.
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Illustrated by Lunt Roberts
Jillies series, first book. Set in Blakeney, Norfolk. |
First edition: blue boards, author's signature in silver front board; 130x190mm;
206pp; map endpapers; colour frontispiece of dustwrapper picture, titled '"There's a boat out there,"
she said suddenly.'
and twelve b/w illustrations;
Dustwrapper picture of Mandy on beach wraps to spine; cp 7s 6d.
A note on the wrapper of the first edition states that the book has been
adapted for broadcast on BBC's Children's Hour.
Presumably broadcast 1948.
Reprinted:
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2nd edition 1954: grey boards, silver blocking, 205pp; map eps; b/w frontispiece, the illustration
formerly last in the book; and a dustwrapper by Marcia Lane Foster showing the
main characters on the beach. The picture is front only, the spine having its own illustration
of a redshank and shed on the dunes; cp 7s 6d |
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Other editions:
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Armada 1963: banded spine; cover of girl with binoculars on beach, two boys below, by Charles Stewart; map; illustrations; 160pp; C32; cp 2/6; lists only Strangers at Snowfell and Ambermere Treasure.
Reissued 1970 as C310: new cover illustration, not credited;
[my copy cp 3/6 (17½p)] |
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White Lion 1976: Hardback edition with dustwrapper; red boards with gilt blocking; map endpapers; illustrated by Lunt Roberts; b/w frontispiece not as the first edition; 205pp; dustwrapper illustration in black and white shows Blakeney Church. [For information on this edition, thanks to Steven Handy] |
[Severn House (?mentioned in publicity material, but thought to be error)]
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Het Spectrum 1962: (Holland) One of of their Prisma Juniores series as De Jillies op dievenjacht. Translation by C. F. Boltje-Beets. paperback; reference number J 185; cover figurative with heads peering out from behind tree, not credited; map; illustrations by Lunt Roberts; 188pp |
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