Looking for a book

[tamarinne]

Cross-posted to bookfind

I'm looking for a book for which I have the following description:

A "choose your own adventure" type children's storybook which would have been written and published sometime between 1900-1930.  It was hardback, set and very likely produced in England and was about a girl and a boy searching the local countryside for buried treasure, with "go to page such and such" story options at the end of each page.

If anyone even has a suggestion for places where I could try to track this down, it would be much appreciated!   (For that matter, if anyone knows of any "choose your own adventure" type books or plays that date back more than fifty years heck, earlier than the late 70's/early 80's, those would be helpful too.)

Comments

[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

Well, there are a few modern examples of plays with variable endings where the audience chooses. Shear Madness, for example, or the Dickens murder mystery where he never finished the story... I can't think of the name off the top of my head. The Mystery of Edwin Drood? Something like that.

But the reason I'm doing this research is because my theater company is doing a 'choose your own adventure' type play. It may be an utter disaster, it may be hilarious, it may be both... it's hard to say at this juncture.

And I hadn't heard that story about Steve Jackson, that's great!