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The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

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Author(s):E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne
Publisher(s): T. Fisher Unwin
Year Published: 1899
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Fiction - Novel
Girls Growing Up
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 296
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 17682128

Description

The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes. Read online at archive.org.

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Other Editions

The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)

After being sent to the country “to learn to be good,” the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
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The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)

After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.

Publisher: Harper & Brothers
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New Treasure Seekers, or The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1904)

Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
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The Bastable Children (1928)

An omnibus volume containing The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, and The New Treasure Seekers.

Publisher: Coward-McCann
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New Treasure Seekers (1931)

Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity.

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
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The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1947)

After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
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New Treasure Seekers (1948)

Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity.

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1948)

The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes.

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1958)

The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes.

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
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The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1958)

After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited
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Conscience Pudding (1970)

In this adventure from The New Treasure Seekers, the Bastable children attempt to liven up their Christmas celebration.

Publisher: Coward-McCann
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The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1993)

Dora and Oswald, Dicky and Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius try to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family. This set includes The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods and The New Treasure Seekers.

Publisher: The Folio Society
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Poor Stainless (1966)

When Stainless does not return from his errand, his family fears the worst.

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