http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/ For collectors of childrens' books, movie and TV tie-in books and old magazines Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:05:03 GMT Opsbooks@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10101 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10101 Here's an offlist query. Please cc to Claire claire@... John CB&M ... claire@... Date: 2009/11/10 Subject: A lost story Dear Sir, I Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:04:31 GMT Michael Everson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10100 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10100 Has anyone got Capt. Robert Marshall's JOHNNY IN THUNDERLAND, which was published in the Harry Furniss Christmas Annual for 1905? Michael Everson * Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:34:27 GMT Adrianne Fitzpatrick http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10099 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10099 I'm not sure of the dates in question, but I wonder if he was perhaps reacting to such authors as Rita Coatts. (I'm sure there are others like her, but that's Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:28:10 GMT jmackenzie48 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10098 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10098 Hi Tig, It is definitely children's detective books that Trease is attacking. It also seems to be British books. I think it is boy detectives rather than girl Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:14:18 GMT jmackenzie48 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10097 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10097 Hi John, Thanks for these which I had somehow missed. Jim Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03:14 GMT Opsbooks@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10096 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10096 Sir Ludovic Kennedy Sir Ludovic Kennedy, newscaster, television presenter, author and campaigner, has died aged 89 (20 October 2009) When the Independent Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:36:19 GMT tiptruck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10095 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10095 In desperation I'm beginning to sell bulk lots of books, obviously pickup only as they're too heavy to pack and post. Currently just listed are more than 70 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:14:47 GMT Tig Thomas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10094 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10094 Jim, I'm intrigued by this. There are many spycatching storylines in girls' stories around the First World War (For example, the Guide story 'The Castlestone Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:32:33 GMT Opsbooks@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10093 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10093 From Sheppard's and linked site - could be a few format errors! October 19, 2009 6:06 PM PDT Internet Archive's BookServer could 'dominate' Amazon by Daniel Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:21:49 GMT Opsbooks@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10092 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10092 G'day, Jim. I don't recall any. Such stories were usually confined to the story or comic papers of the period. Maybe Trease was referring to those; Sexton Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:27:13 GMT jmackenzie48 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10091 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10091 I have been trying to gather information about children's detective stories that were appearing in the 1920s and 1930s. I came a cross this trail by looking at Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:11:40 GMT anobium625 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10090 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10090 Hi Graham, For seaches of this sort, nothing beats Loganberry Books' "Stump the Bookseller." They charge two dollars to post an inquiry, and many folks Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:48:18 GMT gmarsh16 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10089 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10089 Here's a long shot; my wife had, well over 30 years ago, a book about a young girl who lived with a family of pandas. She believes that the pictures in the Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:52:50 GMT Tammi Mossman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10088 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10088 It was probably her husband's initials; that was typical for the time. A lead for you may be finding info on The Gorham Press, a publisher in Boston during the Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:29:22 GMT Michael Everson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10087 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBandM/message/10087 In the early 20th century, the firm A. L. Burt of New York published a range of abridged re-tellings "in words of one syllable". Alice in Wonderland, Black