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Books in the Fiction - Novel 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): Unknown

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

Red Horse Hill (1930)

Bud Martin decides to take his bulldog and try New Hampshire. He finds a warm welcome with Uncle John and Aunt Sarah.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Lee Townsend

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild -

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

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930)

On his way home from the market, Little Pig Robinson is shanghaied by a ship’s cook with no good intentions. The ship’s cat helps the pig escape in a boat, and they sail to the Land Where the Bong Tree Grows. This British first edition do... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930)

On his way home from the market Little Pig Robinson is shanghaied by a ship’s cook with no good intentions. The ship’s cat helps the pig escape in a boat, and they sail to the Land Where the Bong Tree Grows. This American first edition ha... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

Timothy and the Blue Cart (1930)

Three children spend the summer on a farm in New Hampshire and make friends with the vegetable man and the horse that pulls his blue cart.

Author(s): Elinor Whitney
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

Toad of Toad Hall with music (1930)

These are the songs that were in the play of The Wind in the Willows.

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

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1930

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

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1930

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)

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. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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)

The goblins ringing the chimes show Trotty Veck a dystopian future -- he wakes determined to make things better. This Christmas book followed the successful A Christmas Carol.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Gleam in the North (1931)

When the Jacobites call on Ewan Cameron’s honor, he must enter into the conspiracy again in this second installment of the Jacobite Trilogy that began with The Flight of the Heron.... View More

Author(s): D. K. Broster
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1931

The Good Earth (1931)

A family story of China. Tenggren did only the dust jacket.

Author(s): Pearl S. Buck
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Grandmother Tippytoe (1931)

A story book featuring Grandmother Tippytoe who lives in a quaint little house with her trouble-making parrot, and funny animal and furniture family.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Grandmother’s Doll (1931)

Betty and her grandmother find Araminta, a Christmas doll of 1875, in the attic.

Author(s): Elizabeth Gladwin Bouton
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

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

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