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Comment by ppint.:
joan aiken's wonderful collections of whimsies:
all with b+w illustrations by pat marriott:
#1: ''
all you've ever wanted'' (1953),
q.v.
#2: ''
more than you bargained for'' (1955),
q.v.
#3: ''
a small pinch of weather'' (1969),
q.v.
#4: ''
a harp of fishbones'' (1972),
q.v.
#5: ''
the faithless lollybird'' (1977),
q.v.
#A4: '
the faithless lollybird (u.s.)'' (1978) - contents differ; see below
#6: ''
up the chimney down'' (1984),
q.v.
#A5: ''
up the chimney down (u.s.)'' (1985) - contents differ; see below
omnibus of #1 and #2:
#O: ''
all and more'' (1971), (this book)
abridged derivative collection:
#Oa: ''
all but a few'' (1974),
q.v.
posthumously-published (re-)collection:
#P1: ''
the serial garden: the complete armitage family stories'' (2008),
q.v.
delayed derivative, shuffled and abridged merkin collections with new titles:
#A1: ''
armitage, armitage, fly away home'' (1968), q.v.
ten ''armitage family'' stories taken from: #1, four stories; #2, this merkin collection's title story retitled ''a batch of magic wands''; #3, five stories;
#A2: ''
smoke from cromwell's time'' (1970), q.v.
~half of #1 (drops ten stories out of nineteen), three from #3, two from #4;
#A3: ''
not what you expected'' (1974), q.v.
most of #2 (drops four stories out of fourteen), three from #3, most of #4 (drops four stories);
leaving 14 stories dropped: 6 from #1, 3 dropped from #2; 3 dropped from #3; 2 dropped from #4;
shuffled and/or abridged merkin collections sharing uk titles:
#A4: ''
the faithless lollybird (u.s.)'' (1978), q.v.
adds two stories from #6
#A5: ''
up the chimney down (u.s.)'' (1985), q.v.
drops three stories from #6, the two stories picked up into #A4 and ''a portable elephant''
and a re-shuffled merkin collection:
#A6: ''
shadows & moonshine'' (2001), q.v.
five stories from #1, two from #3, three from #4, and three from #5; all in previous us collections