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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Plain Murder (1930)
Three advertising men murder their boss to avoid dismissal, but one of them has developed a taste for murder.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Bill George
Plain Murder (1930)
Three advertising men murder their boss to avoid dismissal, but one of them has developed a taste for murder.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Salute to Adventurers (1930)
Adventures of a Scotch lad in Virginia in the early days of colonization.
The cover image shown above is from the 1915 edition.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Swallows and Amazons (1930)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier
Toad of Toad Hall with music (1930)
These are the songs that were in the play of The Wind in the Willows.
Author(s):
H. Fraser-Simson
Kenneth Grahame
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Twilight of Magic (1930)
The twins, Giles and Anne, with assistance of Agnes the Applewoman come to the aid of the King.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Clare Roberts
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Eleven short stories in which Jeeves exerts his powers to rescue the young master, Bertie Wooster, and his friends and relatives from various predicaments, chiefly matrimonial.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
James Montgomery Flagg
When I Was Very Young (1930)
A brief biography of the author.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Witch’s Maiden: A Historical Romance (1930)
Temperance, her parents dead and she only seven years old, is dispossesed by Cromwell’s officers as a Royalist and sent to live with the neighboring witch.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Tyrrell
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Alice and Thomas and Jane (1931)
Three children have adventures in an English seaside town.
Author(s):
Enid Bagnold
Illustrator(s):
Enid Bagnold
Laurian Jones
All Passion Spent (1931)
A novel about an elderly woman who gives up a great inheritance to live quietly. Dust jacket by Lois Lenski.
Author(s):
Virginia Sackville-West
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Big Money (1931)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Harry Beckhoff
Big Money (1931)
Two young men, Godfrey, Lord Biskerton “Biscuit” and his one-time inseparable comrade John Beresford “Berry” Conway, and their efforts to raise money and to woo their respective girlfriends.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Harry Beckhoff
The Chimes (1931)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Compleat Angler (1931)
Author(s):
Izaak Walton
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Dream Days (1931)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories (1931)
A collection of original fairy stories.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Hilarie Belloc’s Cautionary Verses (1931)
The complete collection of humorous verses by the English master.
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Nicolas Bentley
Basil T. Blackwood
If I Were You (1931)
In a tip of the hat to Gilbert and Sullivan, P.G. Wodehouse presents Anthony, Fifth Earl of Droitwich and hairdresser Syd Price who may or may not have been switched by the nanny.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown