Puffin Annual Number One

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Information on identifying editions is from Richard Walker’s “Roald Dahl – A Guide to Collecting His First Editions”.

  • First edition:
    • Puffin Books, 1974, USA and UK.
      • To identify: Used a standard single statement and was published without a dust jacket and priced at £1.20 and $3.65.
  • Edited by: Treld Bicknell, Frank Waters, Kaye Webb
  • Also contains:
    • “The Faithless Lollybird” by Joan Aiken
    • “Ten Characters in Search of a Story” by Edward Ardizzone
    • “Impossible Pets” by Peter Dickinson
    • “Collecting Castles” by Sheila Sancha
    • “La Corona and the Tin Frog” by Russell Hoban
    • “How Birds Fly” by Charles Gibbs-Smith
    • “The Tin Horseman” by Russell Hoban
    • “England is a Palimpsest” by Jill Paton Walsh
    • “Walter and his Magic” by Mel Calman
    • “The Boy, the Dog and the Spaceship” by Nicholas Fisk
    • “Professor Branestawm Goes Cuckoo” by Norman Hunter
    • “Louise Loppa, a Story in Pictures” by Gunvor Edwards
    • “Captain Pugwash Rides the Waves” by John Ryan
    • “Here be Dragons…” by Bruce Carter
    • “How to Make a Puffin Kite” by Conrad Bailey
    • “The Cat” by Tove Jansson
    • “The Strange Affair of the Wattle-U-Eat” by Brenda Johnson
    • “That Awful Boy” by Geoffrey Trease
    • “The Night Watchman and the Crocodile” by Russell Hoban
    • “C.S. Lewis” by Roger Lancelyn Green
    • “The Clock” by Russell Hoban
    • “The Ship in the Bottle” by Barbara Sleigh
    • “My Mother’s Frilly Parasol” by Cynthia Harnet
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Points of View Book 1

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  • Published by:
    • Ward Lock Educational, 1980, USA.
  • Edited by: Bryan Newton
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Penguin Classic Crime

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  • Published by:
    • Penguin, 1984, UK.
  • Edited by: Julian Symons
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Patterns in Literature

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  • Published by:
    • Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974, USA.
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Enthralling Mystery Stories

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  • Published by:
    • Hamlyn/Octopus, 1981, UK.
  • Also published as Mystery Stories
    • Golden Press, 1991, UK.

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Mysterious, Menacing & Macabre

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  • Published by:
    • Elsevier, 1981, USA.
  • Edited by: Helen Hoke
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Murderous Schemes

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  • Published by:
    • Oxford University Press, 1996, UK.
  • Edited by: Donald E. Westlake and J. Madison Davis
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Murder British Style

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  • Published by:
    • Barnes and Noble Books, 1993, USA.
  • Edited by: Martin H. Greenberg
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Description

Murder isn’t just plain old-fashioned murder when it’s ‘Murder British Style’! This warming, yet chilling compendium of mystery and death presents nineteen classic, ‘cozy’ murders by some of the world’s great mystery writers. The accent is British, and the lineup is a virtual ‘Who’s Who in the Mystery World’, with stories by Dame Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Simon Brett, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Roald Dahl, Dorothy J. Cannell, John Dixon Carr, and many more…


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