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The Children's Wonder BookLondon, Collins. circa 1930's. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publishers original blind embossed red boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, shelf wear, lightly sunned spine, closed tear to lower front panel, now protected in Brodart. Red illustrated endpapers, booksellers label to rear of front board. Previous owners name to half title page. Frontis: colour plate. 416pp profusely illustrated with over 200 illustrations by well-known artists. Plus 8 full coloured plates. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. A beautiful collectors copy. Stories and Poems by: Rudyard Kipling; Alfred Noyes; Walter De La Mare; W.B. Yeats; Lewis Carroll; Daniel Defoe; Rose Fyleman; Eleanor Farjeon; John Drinkwater; John Keats; Hans Anderson; Charles Dickens; Brother Grimm. Here assembled between the covers of one great volume, are all the beloved classics of childhood and a host of stories and poems by modern authors, who themselves are almost as firmly established in the heart of childhood as their famous predecessors. This is a book for boys and girls of all ages and tastes. A companion book to The Golden Story Book. Very Good/Very Good.
Offered for AUD 45.00 = appr. US$ 35.87 by: Eccleston Books & Curios - Book number: 002667
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