The Midnight Folk

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John Masefield’s much-loved 1920s children’s book about a boy who must fight dark magic to uncover his family’s treasure. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Abner has the Pouncer Seven, his witch friends, and their dark magic but Kay has the very special Midnight Folk to help him - Nibbins, the cat, Bitem, the fox and Blinky, the owl. Will Kay and the midnight folk be in time to save the long-lost family treasure from falling into the hands of Abner Brown and a tribe of witches known as the Pouncer Seven?

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The success of his second book was followed by the publication of several long narrative poems, including Dauber (1914) and Reynard the Fox (1919). Masefield takes this scenario and stuffs it with every imaginable device of children’s literature – talking animals, pirates, hidden pas­sages, invisibility potions, mermaids, King Arthur and more.Your Size May Vary: The relative sizes of Kay and the various Midnight Folk is never nailed down, and seems to vary according to convenience. Front hinge a little stressed o/w a nice bright, tight copy in bright blue cloth with gilt device on front board. Abandoned Area: The brewery and stables at Seekings, obsolete in the age of mass-produced beer and motor cars, now slowly falling into ruin.

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It is about a boy, Kay Harker, who sets out to discover what became of a fortune stolen from his seafaring great grandfather Aston Tirrold Harker (in reality, Aston Tirrold is a village in Oxfordshire). Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. He is a child among the children in "The Midnight Folk,” which is incomparably the best book of its kind that has appeared since Mrs. Magical, fantastical and filled with vivid, rich characters – brought to life in this edition by Quentin Blake’s stunning artwork – The Magic Folk and its prequel The Box of Delights are a must-read for any child.x 2" Piece missing from front endpage; >> 1" x 2" Writing on front endpage; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. The two books also have links, in terms of shared settings and characters, with a series of adventure stories for adults which began with Sard Harker in 1925.

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While Kay is talking to the first of these, of Captain Harker, ‘A black cat with white throat and paws, which had been ashes for forty years, rubbed up against great grandpapa Harker’s legs, and then, springing on the arm of his chair, watched the long dead sparrows in the plum tree, which had been firewood a quarter of a century ago. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? He hears – or remembers hearing – countless stories of local folklore and history from the indefatigable maid, Ellen. In addition to the Sunday morning 'family-friendly' drama (which this week will be the continuation of Travelling Light and Anne of Green Gables) and regular weekday programme, the 4 O’Clock Show, Radio 4 Extra is pleased to present another production perfect for school holiday listening. It is possible that she represents Masefield's memory of his own mother who died when he was very young.There are the layers of the treasure story, folded around three generations, but other histories are interleaved everywhere: great floods and storms, the druids, the Wars of the Roses, the reign of Henry VIII, the Battle of Naseby, the plague and so on. Paper label on the spine is discolored, bottom corner is bumped, woodcut illustration, no previous owner's names, not exlibrary. The loss haunted him until his death, a haunting that also ruined the happiness of his wife and son. Lightly toned pages with spots and other marks to page margins from toned and spotted text block edge DJ Condition: No DJ.

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It is difficult for me to describe the ecstatic bliss of my earliest childhood,’ he wrote in a late memoir, So Long to Learn: All that I looked upon was beautiful, and known by me to be beautiful, but also known by me to be, as it were, only the shadow of something much more beautiful, very, very near, and almost to be reached, where there was nothing but beauty itself in ecstasy, undying, inexhaustible . Along the way, he rides on a magic broomstick, visits his great-grandfather inside his own portrait and after taking a swig of Invisible Potion eavesdrops on the Pouncer Seven, a tribe of witches.

Kay lives in a vast old country house, and is looked after by an unpleasant duo: the oily and egregious Sir Theopompous and the petulant and punitive Sylvia Daisy Pouncer. The independent-minded quarterly magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Kay Harker is aided in his quest by various talking animals, most notably Nibbins the cat, who used to be a witch's cat but has reformed.