The Tesseract:
A Madeleine L'Engle Bibliography
The Camilla Dickinson Novels and
The Katherine Forrester Vigneras Novels

Camilla Dickinson Novels

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 245? pages	unknown / none		Simon & Schuster	1951	out of print	"more permanent hard binding" edition. Title: Camilla Dickinson
hardcover 245 pages	unknown / none		Simon & Schuster	1951	out of print	"Reader's Edition". Title: Camilla Dickinson
hardcover	0690168578		Ty Crowell Co	Jun 1965	out of print	Revised edition. Title: Camilla
hardcover ? pages	0385281102		Doubleday	Oct 1981	out of print	Revised edition. Title: Camilla. May be same edition as Delacourt Press but different ISBN (or could be a mistake!)
hardcover 278 pages	0440010209		Delacourt Press	1981	out of print	Revised edition. Title: Camilla 22. cm.
hardcover ? pages	0844668338	$17.75	Peter Smith Pub	Dec 1982	probably available	Title: Camilla
mass-market paperback	0440911710	$4.50	Dell Laurel-Leaf	Dec 1982	available	Revised edition. Title: Camilla.  6.76" x 4.22" x .51"
turtleback edition	0606019472	$9.75	Demco Media	Aug1994	available	Probably a hardcover library binding with no dust jacket. Revised edition. Title: Camilla
cassette edition	0807218065	$15.89	Listening Library	Nov 1996?	may be available	Revised edition. Title: Camilla. Source (Amazon) lists erroneous publication date of November 1911.
cassette book edition	9999736432	?	Listening Library	Nov 1996?	may be available	Revised edition. Title: Camilla. Source (Amazon) lists erroneous publication date of November 1911.

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A LIVE COAL IN THE SEA Adult novel. Elderly astronomer Dr. Camilla Dickinson recalls the events of her long life when her granddaughter Raffi asks about the true parentage of Raffi's troubled soap star father.

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 323 pages	0374189897	$24.00	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	May 1996	available	First Edition 9.4"1 x 6.34" x 1.09"
trade paperback 336 pages	0060652861	$13.00	HarperCollins	May 1997	not yet available

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Katherine Forrester (Vigneras) Novels

THE SMALL RAIN a.k.a. PRELUDE Katherine Forrester is reunited with her pianist mother only to lose her again. She later goes to boarding school and back to New York City, finding love and betrayal on the way while remaining true to her own musical talent. One of the friends she makes along the way is Felix Bodeway [A Severed Wasp].

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A SEVERED WASP Now widowed and semi-retired, Katherine Forrester Vigneras recalls the events of her life as she renews her friendship with semi-retired Bishop Felix Bodeway [A Small Rain ] and is drawn into present-day intrigues and dangers at an Episcopal Cathedral in New York City. Dr. Suzy Davidson (Suzy Austin) appears, along with her husband Dave Davidson [The Young Unicorns], a generation older and with children of their own. Mimi Oppenheimer [A Winter's Love ] also appears, and mentions her Grandmother Renier, probably Stella [The Other Side of the Sun ]. Even Phillipa Hunter [And Both Were Young ] is represented by a painting on Katherine's wall.

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 388 pages	0374350493		Farrar Straus & Giroux	1982	out of print	First Edition
trade paperback	0374517835	$13.00	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Nov 1983	available	7.59" x 5.12" x 1.07"
paperback	0374261318		Farrar Straus & Giroux	Nov 1983	unknown	not sure what this is.

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