H C CRADOCK; MABEL L TYRELL; CLARA MIDDLETON; ETC

Once Upon a Time

London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Caroline Hall, Anne Anderson, H Marjorie Baker, Coreen Marsh. Private Press, Pictorial front cover, cardboard back, green cloth spine. Front cover shows a girl with short black hair seated on a chair and reading to 3 much younger children. Colour frontispiece (boy falls off tricycle) and seven colour drawings. Some of the line drawings have been coloured in (well), stain on one page where red colour has transferred from colouring in. Cover edges and corners worn, light soiling on covers, some age toning in interior. No date but the only other copy I can see on the internet is 1920s. Owner inscription on ffep. 420g. Good.

-- Mayger & Mayger Pty Ltd.

Book number: 001405

Catalogue: Children

Keywords: Caroline Hall, Anne Anderson, H Marjorie Baker, Coreen Marsh

STAR RADIO (ED) ; TYRELL, MABEL L; SMIGH, PETER; LEA, JOHN; EGAN, CONSTANCE ; MEAD, STELLA ET AL

Bed-Time Stories

London: Daily News, N.D.. Hardcover. Illustrated by O'Reilly;e Da Costa;. A lolvey collection of stories - which include fairy stories and animal stories with lolvey illustrations - the stories include: Why Banbury was cross; The Fairy Who sneezed; Tweeny Bunting; Why the cat sneezed; fairy doorways; The christmas mouse; fairy feathers; prickels rival; the hole in the door; dandelion clocks; the sort of cat I am and why; 'Chubbie'; The fairy queen's silver Teaspoons; the king who mlooked at a cat and many more delightful stories; the book looks of the 1920's era; ot has full colour plates and b/w line drawings; ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Very Good- .

-- Peakirk Books

Book number: 82526

Catalogue: Juvenile: : Anthologies: : Bed-Time Stories

Keywords: Fairies Animals Cats Illustrated