192pp, with colour plate frontispiece, further monochrome plate illustrations and drawings etc in text. In pictorial boards over linen spine. Small 4to. Boards are rubbed and chipped at edges, quite heavily shelf worn, spine cloth rounded and lightly fraying at ends, sunned spine. Upper text block edge darkened, other edges lightly spotted. Hint of toning on endpapers, a little compressed around hinges, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring occasional small sign of fingering. An early BBC volume for girls and boys, containing a series of illustrated stories including contributions from John Watt, Muriel Newell, Peter Martin, F M Dimmock, Olwen Bowen, E M L Elliot, Mabel Marlowe, P W Darnell and others.
Vintage Books, BBC Books, Children's Books, Short Stories
