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THE PLAY'S THE THING!
Written by Enid Blyton; Alec Rowley. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 576252
Published by The Home Library Book Company; George Newnes Limited. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

12 musical plays for children aged 8 to 15. 24 full-page b/w drawings by Alfred Bestall and music by Alec Rowley. Very large format. Russet cloth, gilt title and decorations to spine. Pictorial endpapers. 240 pages. A few marks to front cover. Spine and corners just very slightly bumped. Small piece missing from lower margin of page 109. Small closed margin tears on pages 111, 113 and 161. A few faint foxspots to endpapers and a few faint margins marks else contents bright and clean. A very nice copy of this handsome book.

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ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON & THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Written by S. Lyle Cummins. Illustrated by G.L. Stampa.
Stock no. 573817
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1922. Slightly better than very good condition.

Small format. Grey boards. Colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 2 plays for children. Book: book plate to front endpaper. Spine browned. A lovely little book.

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THE BARROW DIGGERS
No author listed.
Stock no. 567229
Published by Whittaker & Co.. 1st 1849. Fair condition.

A play. Burgundy boards, gilt titles. B/w plates. The dialogue of The Barrow Diggers in imitation ofthe grave diggers in Hamlet, was written shortly after the author of it had assisted an exceedingly agreeable party in opening a Barrow. Front board detached. Two (out of 11) plates present. Corners rubbed.

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ENID BLYTON'S BOOK OF HER FAMOUS PLAY NODDY IN TOYLAND
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 612380
Published by Sampson Low. Very good condition.

Red cloth with black title to spine. Black illustration of the toytown train on front and rear cover. Colour plates, some double page spreads. A play in three acts. 9.75 x 7.5". Corners very slightly rubbed. Contents clean and bright.

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BRAD
Written by Saunders Lewis.
Stock no. 989778
Published by Christopher Davies. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Text in Welsh. ISBN: 0715400835. Small stain to front cover.

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GRANNIE GRAY
Written by Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by Joan Jefferson Farjeon.
Stock no. 310744
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1ST Very good condition.

Plays and Singing-Games for Children. Dark pink cloth with dark titles. B/w illustrations. 148 pages.

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PHILIP THE KING
Written by John Masefield. Illustrated by Laurence Irving.
Stock no. 311355
Published by Heinemann. 1927. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 360 copies (of which 350 were for sale). Large format. Black cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w mounted plates (printed on tissue paper). 45 pages. SIGNED by author and illustrator, copy no. 231. Corners bumped. Covers very lightly faded. A few small foxspots else contents clean. White paper dustwrapper (with brown title and vignette to front) is slightly edge chipped and lightly browned. Contained in original slipcase which is well worn but has done it's job and kept the book/dustwrapper nice.

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GOOD AFTERNOON, CHILDREN
Written by Columbus. Illustrated by John Morton-Sale.
Stock no. 703842
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Very good condition.

Wireless stories and plays from The Clildren's Hour. Edited by Columbus. Yellow cloth, grey titles and decorations. 4 Colour plates and many b/w illustrations. 267 pages. 9.5 x 6". Spine and corners bumped. Covers very slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper partly erased, name to belongs to box. Page-edge foxing.

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