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Author:	Beverley Nichols
Title:	The Tree That Sat Down
Publisher:	Jonathan Cape
Country:	UK
Date:	1945
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
Total Editions:	2
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ppint. 9th Jan 2023		jonathan cape h/cvr first published 1945 (first printing 8/1945), first edition jonathan cape ltd. 30 bedford square, london and 91 wellington street west, toronto book production war economy standard this book is produced in com- plete conformity with the authorised economy standards dedication: for the prrp . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . z . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . z (the dotted lines added only to get the two script font zeds positioned correctly) cover (d-j) art, colour plate frontispiece and b+w illustrations by isobel and john morton sale (credited, hyphenated on d-j, not hyphenated on title page) cover price 8s. 6d. net 306 blue-green top edge-stained pp. including 6pp. titles, tipped-in colour frontispiece, indicia, table-of-contents: xix titled chapters, etc, 2 blank end pp. sewn in signatures, bound with endpapers with line-drawn illustrations of rabbits, between blue-green-coloured cloth-covered boards, title, author, publisher's logo in silver on spine, line-drawn peacock in dark green on front cloth distinguish from 5/1946 near-identical second impression: by reference to the added statement line in the indicia publishing history war economy conformity logo and declaration retained dedication retained cover (d-j) art and colour plate frontispiece and b+w illustrations by isobel and john morton sale (credited, hyphenated on d-j, not hyphenated on title page) all retained, cover price 8s. 6d. net 306 blue-green top edge-stained pp. including 6pp. titles, tipped-in colour frontispiece, indicia, table-of-contents etc, 2 blank end pp., sewn in signatures, bound with endpapers with line-drawn illustrations of rabbits, between blue-green-coloured cloth-covered boards, title, author, publisher's logo in silver on spine, line-drawn displaying peacock in dark green on front cloth distinguish also from at least one further near-identical impression of this edition dated 1949, which is probably not the same as this copy: near-identical third impression of the 1947 edition (d-j seen, but book not examined closely) which is bound in green cloth-covered boards - i.e. there would seem to be three (possibly more) impressions of the 1947 first edition, and at least a second hardcover edition dated 1949; - ''further research required: please supply funds for an m.a. course of a year or more...''



ppint. 12th Mar 2023		collins group/wm. collins sons (re-check) lions imprint p/b (collins bought gordon landsborough's may fair books ltd., including the armada books imprint and list, subsumed bits into different parts of the collins group, and i'm not yet sure of the exact order of the changes in the armada, armada lions, collins lions, process - or, indeed, if there was a single exact process...) (it's why there's an armada lions lion logo hiding on the front cover - they kept this, though they don't seem to've kept the may fair books imprint going long - or the apparently related icon/ikon imprint going at all.) cover art by erik blegvad (yes, really) (signed, iirc uncredited) b+w interior illustrations cover price pp. later collins/fontana lions p/b editions were abridged, but this unabridged edition may have seen reprints. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st Apr 2019		#1 of a very atmospheric fantasy trilogy: #1: "the tree that sat down" (1945) (this novel) #2: "the stream that stood still" (1948), q.v. #3: "the mountain of magic" (1950), q.v. a much later novel returns to judy, mrs. judy and miss smith, but lacks any apparent connexion in setting, or almost any trace, feel or touch whatsoever of the original three: "the wickedest witch in the world" (1971), q.v. abridged omnibus of #1 & #2: #O: ''the tree that sat down / the stream that stood still'' (both uk and merkin h/cvrs 1960), q.v. ° - abridged omnibus: the 1962 reprint of the merkin h/cvr was printed in england in 1962 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Nov 2017		magical! but be aware of an abridged edition published by collins in lions p/b with this same cover art, and re-printed repeatedly. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Beverley Nichols - The Tree That Sat Down - Collins-Lions - Paperback - UK (1975)