LIVERPOOL COUNTESS ( JAMES COWAN, B E BAUGHAN, ARNOLD WALL, J C ANDERSEN, JESSIE MACKAY, A A GRACE, EDITH HOWES, ESTHER GLEN)

Countess of Liverpools Gift Book

Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs. 1915, First Edition. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: John Gully, P Van Der Velden, C F Summers, Trevor Lloyd, w Menzies Gibb k m Ballantyne, David Low. plates in colour and b&w, contributions by many famous New Zealander's, in verse, prose and art, a fundraiser for the armed forces, blue boards sun faded to to white at spine and also on boards, light soiling to closed edges, gift inscription dated 1915 to fep, 160pp + colour plates tipped on to coloured paper stock pages, line illustrations throughout, many prominent New Zealand writers and artists present in an anthology of pieces sold to raise funds for the sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers, Illustrations in black & white drawings and tipped-in colour plates by John Gully, Trevor Lloyd, C F Kelly, Sidney Thompson, Charles Conder, Tom Glover, Richard Wallwork, also cartoons by W A Bowring, L H Booth, J H Gilmour and David Low, prose by James Cowan, Blanche Baughan, Johannes Andersen, Jessie Mackay, A A Grace, Edith Howes, Dulce Carman, Will Lawson, Ethel Beauchamp, Isbael Maud Peacocke, Arthur H Adams, Esther Glen, H Guthrie Smith and more. Very Good/No Jacket.

-- Fortuna Books

Book number: 009198

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: New Zealand First World War Fund Raising Anthology Art Verse Poetry Prose Writing Contributions John Gully, P Van Der Velden, C F Summers, Trevor Lloyd, W Menzies Gibb K M Ballantyne, David Low

GLEN, ESTHER

Six Little New Zealanders

GB, Cassell. 1928, New Edition. Hardback. A bit cocked. Decorated cover with oval colour plate on front cover. Col. frontis & 3 bw plates. Front joint cracked.Presentation plate on front endpaper Some edge spotting. G++/No DW.

-- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)

Book number: d112A.015

GLEN, ESTHER

Six Little New Zealanders

GB, Cassell. 1928, New Edition. Hardback. Grey decorated cloth with oval colour plate on front cover. Col. frontis & 3 bw plates. Front endpaper roughly removed and front joint cracked. Some edge spotting. Otherwsie a fairly pleasant copy. VG-/No DW.

-- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)

Book number: d100.022