1906 The Railway Children : E. Nesbit : 1st US Edition : Illus by C E Brock VGC

The Railway Children

By E. Nesbit

Illustrated by C E Brock

Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1906. First US edition (published the same year as the first UK Editon published by Wells Gardner Darton & Co). Hardback, pictorial cloth, 8vo, 309 pages, illustrated by C E Brock.

CONDITION
A very good first edition. The pictorial cloth binding is in very good condition with no tears. Endpapers very clean and inner hinges sound with no cracking. All contents present and all pages in lovely clean condition throughout. No writing or names to the book. Overall a fine example of the first US edition.

SYNOPSIS
The story concerns a family who move from London to 'The Three Chimneys', a house near a railway, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children, Roberta (nicknamed "Bobbie"), Peter and Phyllis, befriend an old gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15am train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence and the family is reunited. Before Father is freed, the family takes care of a Russian exile, Mr. Szczepansky, who came to England looking for his family (later located) and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman, who suffers a broken leg in a tunnel.

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