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001 $ 11/3728
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20221006104351.0
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Farjeon, Eleanor
245 1 0 $a The silver curlew / $c Eleanor Farjeon ; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
250 # # $a 1st edition
260 # # $a Oxford $b Geoffrey Cumberlege. Oxford Univeristy Press $c 1953
300 # # $a 182 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm.
500 # # $a The printer is named on the verso of the title page: `Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford by Charles Batey, printer to the University.’
500 # # $a With a flyer for an (undated) production of The Silver Curlew with music by Clifton Parker at the Fortune Theatre, [London] loosely inserted.
505 0 # $a I. Mother Codling and her family -- II. Dumplings -- III. Doll’s day-dream -- IV. Charlee Loon -- V. King Nollekens of Norfolk -- VI. Mother Codling is flummoxed -- VII. The spindle-imp -- VIII. Poll comes to court -- IX. Naming the baby -- X. Feather and flax -- XI. Nine guesses -- XII. Poll and Doll -- XIII. The silver curlew -- XIV. Lost in memory -- XV. In the mist -- XVI. The witching-wood -- XVII. The curlew flies -- XVIII. `We’ll never be ready in time!’ -- XIX. The worst spinster in Norfolk -- XX. Little black imp! -- XXI. The last three guesses -- XXII. `Nimmy-Nimmy-Not!’ -- XXIII. Fairy caskets -- XXIV. The sea-shell sings
563 # # $a Cream cloth covers with title in red and white on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust-jacket.
653 # # $a Illustrated books
653 # # $a Children's stories
700 1 # $a Shepard, Ernest Howard $e illustrator
700 1 # $a Cumberlege, Geoffrey Fenwick Jocelyn $e publisher
700 1 # $a Batey, Charles $e printer
710 2 # $a The University Press (Oxford) $e publisher