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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
The Legacy (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Story for Children (1950)
Evacuated from London during the Blitz, the four Pevensie children discover a new world in the wardrobe in the spare room - Narnia.
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Magic Broom (1950)
Jane and Elizabeth welcome time-traveling visitors to their play house.
Author(s):
Victoria Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Andrew Wyeth
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
Nothing Serious (1950)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
Now We Are Six (1950)
More poems about Christopher Robin and his friends. This edition was reset and the illustrations re-engraved.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1950)
Richard Hannay has returned to England from Rhodesia and is immediately embroiled in a German plot to steal British military secrets.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
A Town Like Alice (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
When We Were Very Young (1950)
This book of poems, originally published in Punch, introduced Christopher Robin and Edward (Winnie-the-Pooh) Bear.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Winnie-the-Pooh (1950)
The first collection of stories about Pooh Bear, Christopher Robin and their friends in the Hundred Acre Woods. The type was reset and the illustrations recut for this edition.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Armourer’s House (1951)
When her grandmother dies, Tamsyn is sent to London. There, she meets a strange old Wise Woman.
Author(s):
Rosemary Sutcliff
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Cat Did It (1951)
A boy's rescue of a kitten changes his life.
Author(s):
Brian Fairfax-Lucy
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
An English Murder (1951)
Dust jacket by Ardizzone to this classic murder mystery.
Author(s):
Cyril Hare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Enter David Garrick (1951)
A biography of the eighteenth century British actor-manager.
Author(s):
Anna Bird Stewart
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Fear at My Heart (1951)
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
None
Five Boys in a Cave (1951)
John Walters and the members of the Tomahawk Club undertake the exploration of a cave he has discovered.
Author(s):
Richard Church
Illustrator(s):
Doug Anderson
Londoners (1951)
A social history of London mid twentieth century.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Masterpieces of Victorian Photography 1840-1900 (1951)
Catalog of an exhibition of photographs. Cover by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Philip James
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mr. Beluncle (1951)
Mr. Beluncle is convinced of his own importance in this satirical novel by the noted literary critic. Dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
V. S. Pritchett
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone