THE LILAC BOOK FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang, E.L. Haverfield, Florence Bone, Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Angela Brazil, et al
Illustrated by H.M. Brock, W. Rainey, C.E. Brock, Edward Thornton, et al.
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford
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THE LILAC BOOK FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang, E.L. Haverfield, Florence Bone, Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Angela Brazil, et al.
Illustrated by H.M. Brock, W. Rainey, C.E. Brock, Edward Thornton, et al..
Stock no. 1325449
1930.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Purple cloth spine with black title and illustration, Lilac pictorial boards. Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Covers are edge worn and a bit grubby. Spine bumped and rubbed. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Grubby fingermarks to contents and some foxing. Slight paper damage to top corner of front free-endpaper (pencil erasure?).
Front cover
Contents
- Aunt Tabitha's Fancies by E.L. Haverfield
- The Magic Well by Esmee Rhoades
- From Far Lands by Dorothy Brown
- Betty's Bit by Florence Bone
- The Last Lesson from the French of Alphonse Daudet
- Tim by Lilian Holmes
- To Officer Commanding by Dorita Fairlie Bruce
- The Story of MerryMind by Frances Browne
- A Young Housekeeper by Mary Russell Mitford
- Half Asleep by Lilian Holmes
- With a Princess in Prison by Estrith Mansfield
- The Ghost in Number Four by Florence Bone
- A Daughter of Italy by Robert Browning
- The Squirrels by E. Thornton
- Jack V.A.D. by Esmee Rhoades
- The Hockey Match by Alice Massie
- The Broken Racquet by E.L. Haverfield
- Saint Bartholomew by Alice Massie
- For Mona's Sake by Dorita Fairlie Bruce
- The Language of Flowers by Angela Brazil
- The Spy of Gull's Nest by M. E. Gullick
- The Longpre Bend by M. Ashworth
- My Garden by Lilian Holmes
- Bessy's Troubles at Home by Mrs Gaskill
- Anita Garibaldi by Emily Underdown
- Treasures of the Woods - A Talk About Toadstools by Angela Brazil
- DaffyDownDilly by Guenn Newnham