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A Traveller In Time
by Uttley Alison
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Cedar Creek, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 210x135x20mm. BRAY, PHYLLIS. 210x135x20mm+386g . . Faber and Faber. London. 1952. First Edition. 5th Printing. . Pp331. First Edition; 5th printing. Tan hard cloth boards with blue lettering to spine; no jacket. Head of spine worn, foot knocked. Front board has a small area of fading to the tan colour. Spine edges and corners show very slight wear. Endpapers foxed. One of Alison Uttley's most popular works. This pioneering time-slip novel (1939) is based on the Babington Plot of Anthony Babington. A romance that mixes dream and historical fact in a story that sees a 20th century girl transported to the 16th century, becoming involved in a plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots from Wingfield Manor: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted.. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$12.00 5th Printing
Synopsis
Alison Uttley (1884–1976) was born Alice Jane Taylor in Derbyshire, England, into a tenant farming family that had lived on the same land for two hundred years. Uttley would return to the Derbyshire landscape and the house she grew up in, Castle Top Farm, in many of her books, including A Traveller in Time . A bright scholarship student throughout her childhood, Uttley went on to Manchester University, and in 1906 became the second female student to graduate with honors in physics from the university. Marriage and motherhood put an end to her teaching career, and it was only after her son, John, began school that she published her first book, The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit (1929). Uttley’s husband died the next year, and she began publishing books at a rapid rate in order to support herself and her son. Among her works are naturalistic novels of youth, adventure tales, and a cookbook, as well as books that grew out of her belief in enchantment, time travel, and the supernatural. By the end of her life, Uttley had written some one hundred books of fiction and nonfiction, including thirty in the Little Grey Rabbit series, and become one of twentieth-century Britain’s most popular children’s writers. Phyllis Bray (1911–1991) was an English painter, illustrator, and muralist. She excelled at the Slade School of Fine Art and later married John Cooper, founder of the East London Group of artists, of which she was also a member. Her work is in several public collections in Britain, and through her collaborations with the well-known muralist Hans Feibusch, on display in churches and other buildings throughout the country.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mammy Bears Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mbb002422
- Title
- A Traveller In Time
- Author
- Uttley Alison
- Illustrator
- BRAY, PHYLLIS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 210x135x20mm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fantasy; Romance; Historical Fiction;
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