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Author:	Joan Aiken
Title:	The Serial Garden
Subtitle:	The Complete Armitage Family Stories
Publisher:	Big Mouth House
Country:	USA
Date:	Oct 2008
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-13:	9780007575305
Cat#:	52000
Total Editions:	2
Rating:	10.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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collection ©2008 john sebastian brown & elizabeth delano charlaff (lizza aiken, joan aiken's granddaughter)
first edition october 2008 (so stated in indica)
published by big mouth house, 150 pleasant street #306 easthampton, ma 01027 (merkia)
distributed by consortium

six unnumbered titles, indica, contents +xiv+332 = 352pp sewn in signatures + endpapers, bound between blue paper-covered boards
dust-jacket art painting by beth adams (©2008 beth adams)
b+w interior illustrations by andi watson (©2008 andi watson)
$20 us/can

contents: stories © 1953, 1955, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1984, 1998, save for those indicated "(2008)": first publication © 2008.

"joan aiken's armitage stories" 5pp intro. by lizza aiken
"yes, but this is an armitage story" 1½pp intro. by garth nix
"prelude" (2008)
"yes, but today is tuesday" (1)
"broomsticks and sardines" (3)
"the frozen cuckoo" (1)
"sweet singeing in the choir" (1)
"the ghostly governess" (1)
"harriet's birthday present" (1)
"dragon monday" (1)
"armitage, armitage, fly away home" (2) aka "a batch of magic bands"
"rocket full of pie" (2)
"doll's house to let, mod. con." (2)
"tea at ravensburgh" (2)
"the land of trees and heroes" (3)
"harriet's hairloom" (3)
"the stolen quince tree" (3)
"the apple of trouble" (3)
"the serial garden" (3)
"mrs. nutti's fireplace" ("a harp of fishbones")
"the looking-glass tree" ("the faithless lollybird")
"miss hooting's legacy" ("up the chimney down")
"kitty snickersnee" (2008)
"goblin music" (2008)
"the chinese dragon" (2008)
"don't go fishing on witches' day" (2008)
"milo's new word" ("moon cake and other stories")

1: "all you ever wanted"
2: "more than you bargained for"
1&2: "all and more" h/cvr (n.b. p/b is abridged)
3: "a small pinch of weather"

simultaneously published in ebook

see also joan aiken website

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ppint. 9th Sep 2021		little, brown book group virago press virago imprint virago modern classic series #641 b-format p/b, first uk edition, first thus fiction contents as per first edition (bookcat's primary edition) cover art unsigned, uncredited b+w interior illustrations by peter bailey (credited, ©2015) ''the story of the armitage family'' forward by lizza aiken (©2015) cover price £8.99 448pp. including (i)-ix pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents, foreword by lizza aiken, etc. refer to indicia printing number string to distinguish between at least three near-identical printings: e.g. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 indicates the first printing, i.e. the true first uk edition; e.g. 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 indicates the second printing, its date of publication/printing not stated, cover price £8.99 e.g. 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 indicating the third printing, its date of publication/printing not stated, cover price £8.99 (edit: and there may well be further printings by now. ppint.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Joan Aiken - The Serial Garden - Virago - Paperback - UK - 9780349005850 (2015)