NUMBER ONE JOY STREET
Written by Walter De La Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, Hilaire Belloc, Rose Fyleman, et al
Illustrated by Alec Buckels, C.T. Nightingale, et al.
Published by Basil Blackwell
in 1923
NUMBER ONE JOY STREET
Written by Walter De La Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, Hilaire Belloc, Rose Fyleman, et al.
Illustrated by Alec Buckels, C.T. Nightingale, et al..
Stock no. 2140031
1923.
Hardback.
Good condition.
A Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls. Cream and orange decorated cloth covers and endpapers. Colour plates mounted on grey card and b/w text illustrations. Covers are darkened/browned - so that they look grubby. Bumping to corners. Joints are cracked causing first plate to be detached. Ink stamp to front endpaper. Foxing, browning and grubby margin marks.
Front cover
Contents
- The Piper
- Tom Cobble
- Poems - Merchant Adventurers, Brother Blaise, The Bowman, The Baffled Bard
- The Man in the Moon
- Poems - The Dream, Friendless, Johnny Munns, Respectable People
- Parson's Twins
- Poems - March for a Toy Soldier, Dirge for a Gollywog, The Little Musical Box
- Puck's Market
- Puck's Magic
- Maria, Who Made Faces
- Miss Jemima
- Poems - Gossip, Clouds, Country and Town
- Hollow Tree Store
- Toffee Boy
- The Open Door