NESBIT, E[dith]. The Railway Children. With Drawings by C.E. Brock. NY: The Macmillan Company [1913]. 12mo, x 209pp + [14] advts. 20 full-page b&w illustrations. Binding heavily rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, stamping nearly all rubbed-off. Nonetheless, an internally clean, tight copy.

 

3^rd printing of the first US edition. Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis find their lives suddenly changed when their father is taken (unjustly) to prison and they must move from London to a small country cottage near a railway. How they adjust to their new life, help prevent a railway accident, and prove their father’s innocence makes an exciting and tender story. Perhaps Nesbit’s best known work, it has been adapted for both film, stage, and television.