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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012-02-28. Paperback. Good.

MP3 Audio CD. Wings and the Child CHAPTER I Of Understanding IT is not with any pretension to special knowledge of my subject that I set out to write down what I know about children. I have no special means of knowing anything: I do, in fact, know nothing that cannot be known by any one who will go to the only fount of knowledge, experience. And by experience I do not mean scientific experience, that is the recorded results of experiments, the tabulated knowledge wrung from observation; I mean personal experience, that is to say, memory. You may observe the actions of children and chronicle their sayings, and produce from these, perhaps, a lifelike sketch of a child, as it appears to the grown-up observer; but observation is no key to the inner mysteries of a child's soul. The only key to those mysteries is in knowledge, the knowledge of what you yourself felt when you were good and little and a child. You can remember how things looked to you, and how things looked to the other children who were… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Wings and the Child CHAPTER I Of Understanding IT is not with any pretension to special knowledge of my subject that I set out to write down what I know about children. I have no special means of knowing anything: I do, in fact, know nothing that cannot be known by any one who will go to the only fount of knowledge, experience. And by experience I do not mean scientific experience, that is the recorded results of experiments, the tabulated knowledge wrung from observation; I mean personal experience, that is to say, memory. You may observe the actions of children and chronicle their sayings, and produce from these, perhaps, a lifelike sketch of a child, as it appears to the grown-up observer; but observation is no key to the inner mysteries of a child's soul. The only key to those mysteries is in knowledge, the knowledge of what you yourself felt when you were good and little and a child. You can remember how things looked to you, and how things looked to the other children who were… Read More

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 197 pages in very good, clean condition. Light foxing on the few first and last pages and endpapers. Fore-edges yellowed. Many illustrations. Green cloth with bright illustration and black titles. Spine darkened and with light wear at the head/tail. Corners lightly bumped and frayed. Edges rubbed. Lower cover is stained and faded. Binding tight. GOOD+. Hard Cover. GOOD+. Illus. by Barraud, George.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Barraud, George. Very good condition with no wrapper. Or The Building of Magic Cities. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black titles and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations and photographs. 197 pages. Spine is browned with some wear. A few light marks to covers. Inscription in pencil to front pastedown. Browning to endpapers and outer page edges. The odd margin mark.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. xiv, 197pp. 43 pictures by George Barraud and from photographs.LACKING THE MATCHING D.J. Attractive green cloth with black illus.front board. Spine a trifle toned but a nice copy. The text block is clean and tight with a trifle foxing to the uncut fore-edge. End-papers off-set as often, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOGRPAHS.. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine/No d.j.. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". George Barraud. The first edition, first impression of Edith Nesbit's work on the education and imaginative development of children, illustrated throughout. A compelling work on the importance of imagination and creative play for the education and development of children. Including chapters on praise, punishment, imagination, play, toys, and more.Written by successful children's author, Edith Nesbit. The first edition of this work. Including a frontispiece portrait of Nesbit along with forty-two additional in-text illustrations. Containing the bookplate of Mary Baker to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally sound, with light shelf wear and fading to the spine. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. A few spots to the first and last few pages, otherwise pages are generally bright and clean. Very Good

Hodder And Stoughton, London, 1913. xiv + 197pp + 43 b/w pictures by George Barraud and from photographs. Green cloth boards with lettering and design printed in black. Gilt titles on spine. Covers scuffed, corners little frayed. Spine ends creased and little frayed, hinges rubbed with some colour loss. Spine lettering faded. Front cover little bowed. Contents little shaken. Page edges and outer pages little foxed, top edge dusty. End papers browned. corner (1cm) of rear paste down lacking. Edges of 1 plate little frayed and soiled. 20x14cms.

London:: Hodder and Stoughton,. Very Good. 1913. Hardcover. First edition. Age darkened along the spine, minor edge wear at the crown of the spine, foxing to endpapers, else very good in green cloth with black lettering and design on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. No dust jacket. ; 197 pages .

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Barraud, George. Very good condition with no wrapper. Or The Building of Magic Cities. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black titles and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations and photographs. 197 pages. Spine lightly browned and a little bumped and worn. A little wear to corners and rear corners bumped. Just a couple of light marks to covers. Name and 1/-, both in pencil, to front endpapers. A couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers lightly browned. A little foxing. Just an odd mark to contents.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 1st Edition. Cloth. VG+/VG. George Barraud. 8vo. Green cloth gilt lettered on the spine and decorated in black on front panel. Wrapped in the rare green and olive dust jacket. Nesbit's book about writing books in dust jacket with chips to the extrmeities. Spine slightly faded. Nice copy.