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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Robin Hood (1948)
This version of the Robin Hood legends was first published in 1912.
Author(s):
Henry Gilbert
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Rose and the Ring (1948)
A complicated tale of two princesses and two princes and the Fairy Blackstick.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
William Makepeace Thackeray
Spring Fever (1948)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
Spring Fever (1948)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1948)
The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
There’s a Porpoise Close Behind Us (1948)
A “book about the theatre proper; tinged with bitter, brittle wit and hard philosophy” (sic). Dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Noel Langley
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Treasure Island (1948)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. This is a much abbreviated edition.
Author(s):
Haydn Perry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Trevannion (1948)
Hard boiled fiction with pugilists and dames. Dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
L. A. G. Strong
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Uncle Dynamite (1948)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
Uncle Dynamite (1948)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Hal McIntosh
Victoria and the Golden Bird (1948)
Victoria lives in a white-washed cottage with her pet hedgehog, Horace, but she would like someone else to play with.
Author(s):
Pauline Baynes
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Witch of Scrapfaggot Green (1948)
The twins are fascinated when a big American bulldozer visits their small English village, but when she digs up the witch amazing things begin to happen.
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Patricia Gordon
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Adam of the Road (1949)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Back to the Local (1949)
A collection of essays on the changes in the pub scene wrought by the Second World War.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Bertie’s Escapade (1949)
Bertie the pig and his friends have a delightful Christmas eve.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Best of Wodehouse (1949)
A collection of short stories including ‘Good-bye to Butlers’ which was not reprinted elsewhere.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
Dick Whittington & His Cat (1949)
Robert Lawson has retold and illustrated in color this classic story of Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London, and his cat.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
The story of a brave farmer and an evil dragon by the author of The Hobbit.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Harding’s Luck (1949)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Desmond E. Walduck
The House of Arden (1949)
Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Desmond E. Walduck