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PARTRIDGE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL - 17TH YEAR
Written by Cecily M. Rutley; Maurice Clifford; E.M. Hunter. Illustrated by Harry B. Neilson; Ernest A. Aris; Sylvia Venus; Nina K. Brisley; et al..
Stock no. 1404920
Published by Partridge. circa 1926. Slightly better than good condition.

Red spine with black title and vignette of a child climbing a flagpole. Pictorial board showing a girl with a red umbrella holding a doll with houses and other children in the background. Blue & red pictorial endpapers by Brisley. Colour plates. Full page four tone illustrations plus two tone illustrations. Spine bumped, worn and a little faded. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Rear board has a couple of small indents and is marked. Front is grubby and a little scratched. Front joint and some hinges are cracked. Endpapers are browned. Inscription in ink plus a pencil drawn circle to the verso of the frontis. Couple of plates (one colour and one four tone) have ragged edges. Some foxing mostly to page edges and grubby marks to contents.

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PARTRIDGE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL - 18TH YEAR
Written by Cecily M. Rutley; John Lea; Evelyn Whitaker; et al. Illustrated by Harry B. Neilson; Nina K. Brisley; Florence Mary Anderson; H.G.C. Marsh Lambert; et al..
Stock no. 1404919
Published by Partridge. circa 1926. Almost very good condition.

Red spine with black title and vignette of a child climbing a flagpole. Black pictorial board showing children on scooters. Red titles. Pictorial endpapers with 4 different nursery rhymes. Colour plates. Full page four tone illustrations plus two tone illustrations. First story is A Tale of the Tinies. Spine bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges a little rubbed. Bottom of rear board bumped. Rear board is a little grubby. Light scuffing/scratch marks to front board. Front joint reinforced. Rear joint and some hinges cracked. Endpapers are browned. Name and date to verso of title page. Creasing to bottom of some pages. Light foxing mainly to page edges plus some grubby marks although many pages are clean.

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THE CHALET GIRLS IN CAMP
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 2111410
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 3rd 1937. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with dark blue title to spine. B/w frontis piece by Brisley. 234 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. Light wear to covers. Bumping to spine. Pale foxing/browning to endpapers and outer page edges. A few hinges are pulled.

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THE GIRLS OF GWYNFA
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 1310057
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. circa 1940. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, black titles and borders. B/w frontis. 310 pages. Spine and corners bumped, very slight fading to spine. Small name in ink to front pastedown and another to dedication page. Contents are browned but otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut by publisher (with new price-sticker above), is edge worn with 1" loss to top of spine.

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SIMPLE READING STEPS: RAGS AND BONES
Written by Mary W. McClure. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 1806821
Very good condition.

Step 17; reading primer. Blue cardwraps. Colour illustrations. 12 pages. Slight crease to lower corners else a nice, clean copy.

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SIMPLE READING STEPS: FLY-BY-NIGHT, THE LAZY ELF
Written by Mary W. McClure. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 1806817
Very good condition.

Step 15. Blue cardwraps. 12 pages. Colour illustrations. Large print.

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LAVENDER LAUGHS IN THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 1304455
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, dark blue titles to spine. 288 pages. B/w frontis by Brisley. Spine and corners bumped. Name plate to front pastedown (attempt has been made to remove it). Heavy foxing to page edges. Wrapper is worn and torn with tape repairs on verso, some slight loss and a bit grubby.

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THE HEAD GIRL OF THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 384866
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1936. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, black title to spine. B/w frontis. 336 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Name and address in ink, 'no. 4' written in ink and also a transfer sticker (of dog) stuck to front endpaper. A few hinges pulled. Some foxing, mainly to outer page edges else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with small patch of loss to top edge of front panel, grubby on rear panel. Tape repairs on verso to edges and folds. A little of the transfer sticker has transferred to the front flap of the dustwrapper.

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JO RETURNS TO THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 384816
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1936. Very good condition.

Blue cloth. Gilt title to spine and front cover. 4 b/w plates by Brisley. 303 pages. 7.5 x 5". Spine slightly bumped and faded. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint partly cracked. Light foxing to outer page edges. A nice copy of the first edition.

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WILFRED'S ANNUAL 1928
No author listed. Illustrated by Anne Anderson; Nina K. Brisley; et al..
Stock no. 592719
Published by Daily Mirror. 1928. Poor condition.

Wilfred's 5th annual. 4 colour plates. Packed with illustrations. Yellow pictorial front cover. Cloth spine. 208 pages. 9.5 x 7.5". Book: all plates present. Front cover almost detached, just held in place by webbing. Some childish colouring throughout. Corners worn. Spine faded.

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TWENTY TALES FOR TELLING
Written by Elizabeth Clark. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 586498
Published by University of London Press. 1st 1933. Nearly fine condition.

Green cloth, black titles and decoration. 189 pages. B/w illustrations. Very light foxing to endpapers.

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THE NEW HOUSE AT THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 733380
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1937. Very good condition.

B/w frontis plate by N.K.Brisley. Blue cloth, dark blue title to spine. 7.5 x 5". 270 pages. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Corners a little worn. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing otherwise contents clean.

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