Science Fact/Fiction

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  • Published by:
    • Scott Foresman, 1974, USA.
  • Edited by: Edmund J. Farrell
  • Introduction by Ray Bradbury

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Scare Care

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  • Published by:
    • Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1989, USA.
  • Edited by: Graham Masterton
  • Copyright 1989 by The Scare Care Trust
    • “Founded by Graham and Wiescla Masterton, Julie Cox, and Simon Carpenter, the Scare Care Trust raises money for children’s charities, focusing on organizations that care for abused and needy children.”
  • Also contains:
    • “Mommy” by Kit Reed
    • “Things Not Seen” by James Robert Smith
    • “The Ferries” by Ramsey Campbell
    • “Good Night, Sweet Prince” by D. W. Taylor

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Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea

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  • Published by:
    • Marlowe & Company, 2001.
  • Edited by: Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker
  • Photography by Mittie Hellmich

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Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense

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  • Published by:
    • Knopf, 1974, USA.
  • Edited by: Ross Macdonald
  • Also contains:
    • “Wet Saturday” by John Collier
    • “The Big Clock” by Kenneth Fearing
    • “What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!” by Agatha Christie
    • “The Payoff” by Stanley Ellin
    • “The Basement Room” by Graham Greene
    • “Fly Paper” by Dashiell Hammett
    • “The Five-Forty Eight” by John Cheever
    • “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • “The Baby in the Icebox” by James M. Cain
    • “The Couple Next Door” by Margaret Millar
    • “The Amateur” by Michael Gilbert
    • “The Terrapin” by Patricia Highsmith
    • “Enquiry” by Dick Francis
    • “The Far Side of the Dollar” by Ross Macdonald
    • “The Comforts of Home” by Flannery O’Connor

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Reading for Pleasure

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  • Published by:
    • Harper & Brothers, 1957, USA.

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The Random House Book of Humor for Children

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  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1988, USA.
  • Edited by: Pamela Pollack
  • Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky

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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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