WINGS AND THE CHILD by NESBIT. E - 1913

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MP3 Audio CD. Wings and the Child CHAPTER I Of Understanding IT is not with any pretension to special knowledge of my subject that I set out to write down what I know about children. I have no special means of knowing anything: I do, in fact, know nothing that cannot be known by any one who will go to the only fount of knowledge, experience. And by experience I do not mean scientific experience, that is the recorded results of experiments, the tabulated knowledge wrung from observation; I mean personal experience, that is to say, memory. You may observe the actions of children and chronicle their sayings, and produce from these, perhaps, a lifelike sketch of a child, as it appears to the grown-up observer; but observation is no key to the inner mysteries of a child's soul. The only key to those mysteries is in knowledge, the knowledge of what you yourself felt when you were good and little and a child. You can remember how things looked to you, and how things looked to the other children who were… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Wings and the Child CHAPTER I Of Understanding IT is not with any pretension to special knowledge of my subject that I set out to write down what I know about children. I have no special means of knowing anything: I do, in fact, know nothing that cannot be known by any one who will go to the only fount of knowledge, experience. And by experience I do not mean scientific experience, that is the recorded results of experiments, the tabulated knowledge wrung from observation; I mean personal experience, that is to say, memory. You may observe the actions of children and chronicle their sayings, and produce from these, perhaps, a lifelike sketch of a child, as it appears to the grown-up observer; but observation is no key to the inner mysteries of a child's soul. The only key to those mysteries is in knowledge, the knowledge of what you yourself felt when you were good and little and a child. You can remember how things looked to you, and how things looked to the other children who were… Read More

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Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Barraud, George. Very good condition with no wrapper. Or The Building of Magic Cities. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black titles and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations and photographs. 197 pages. Spine is browned with some wear. A few light marks to covers. Inscription in pencil to front pastedown. Browning to endpapers and outer page edges. The odd margin mark.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. xiv, 197pp. 43 pictures by George Barraud and from photographs.LACKING THE MATCHING D.J. Attractive green cloth with black illus.front board. Spine a trifle toned but a nice copy. The text block is clean and tight with a trifle foxing to the uncut fore-edge. End-papers off-set as often, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOGRPAHS.. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine/No d.j.. 8vo.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Barraud, George. Very good condition with no wrapper. Or The Building of Magic Cities. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black titles and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations and photographs. 197 pages. Spine lightly browned and a little bumped and worn. A little wear to corners and rear corners bumped. Just a couple of light marks to covers. Name and 1/-, both in pencil, to front endpapers. A couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers lightly browned. A little foxing. Just an odd mark to contents.