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The Red Windcheater
A title in the Nippers
series, edited by the author Leila Berg. A short story about Amanda and her mother going to a Dutch auction to buy some clothes, including an anorak.
(Last updated on 30/11/2020)
● First edition
Author: J.L. Carr
Year: December 1970
Reprinted: 1971, 1973, 1974
Editor: Leila Berg
Pictures by: George Adamson
Publisher: Macmillan Education Ltd, London
ISBN: none given on first three impressions published in 1970, 1971 and 1973; SBN 333 01789 7 on fourth impression in 1974, with no leading zero
Size: 215 x 147 mm
Pages: 32 pp
Binding: Thin card wrappers, stapled
Price: none stated
Printed by: Ebenezer Baylis & Sons, Leicester (first three impressions); Editorial Fher s.a., Bilbao (fourth impression).
Notes: First edition not seen. This entry needs a photograph of a copy in better condition. Most copies of this book went to schools, so they tend to have ownership stamps.
There are copies in the National Library of Wales and at Trinity College, Dublin. There is no copy in the British Library.
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● Second edition
Author: J.L. Carr
Editor: Leila Berg
Artist: George Adamson
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, London
Year: 1979
ISBN: 0 333 26474 6
Size: 222 x 154 mm
Pages: unpaginated
Binding: printed boards
Pictures by: George Adamson
Price: 99 p
Printed in: Hong Kong
Notes: This is unusual in that the second edition was issued as a hard back book. Presumably teachers wanted a book that was more hard wearing. It was given a new ISBN.
There are copies at Cambridge University and Trinity College, Dublin. There is no copy in the British Library.
Front cover
● Braille edition
Publisher: St Lucy's School for Blind and Visually Handicapped Children, Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
Year: no date
ISBN: none
Size: not seen
Pages: not seen
Binding: not seen
Pictures by: not seen
Price: not sold?
Printed in: not known
Notes: There is a copy of this braille edition in the National Library of Australia.
Front cover