Dehn, Olive / Meldrum, Roy / Compton Mackenzie / Jean Margaret Hamilton / Madeleine Nightingale / et. al.

No. Fourteen [14] Joy Street. A Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls.

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, No Year [c.1930]. 18.3 cm x 24.8 cm. Frontispiece, 246 pages. Black and white and several tipped-in colour-illustrations. Illustrators include Harry Rountree, C.T.Nightingale, Maria Wolff, Mary Baker, Audrey Teago, Josephine Leslie etc. Original Hardcover. Decorative cloth boards. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Good+ condition. Binding a little shaky but holding with endpapers intact. Minor wear and rubbing to cover. Moderate foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pages throughout. Many previous owners names in ink to half-title and title pages. A few colour markings throughout. Pages separating from book block in places.

Includes for example the following stories: The Nixie From Rotterdam by Olive Dehn / Spikey Toes by Madeleine Nightingale / The Wolf, The Hare and The Hedgehog by Valery Carrick / The Stairs That Kept On Going Down by Compton Mackenzie / Seven For A Secret by Hugh Chesterman / The House-Book by Malcolm Taylor / Annabel in Africa by Josephine Leslie etc.

• Keywords: Catalogue Two – Children’s Books · Children’s · Children’s Books · Children’s Books Rare · Children’s stories · Childrenbook · Illustrated · Illustrated Books · Illustrated Children’s Books · Short Stories · Women as Children’s Book Authors · Women as Illustrators · Women as Illustrators of Children’s Books
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200463AB

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