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Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press,, 1923 Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1923 reprint hardback decorative black titles to red cloth with colour paste down label of old man standing by a young girl stting down under a tree 284 pages with 6 colour illustrations by Charles E Brock, wear and light soiling to boards, some pages have pencil marking and tanning to extremeties and a tear to 1 page but still in acceptable studying reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

1914. Henry Frowde / Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1914. No DW. Early edition in original pictorial cloth gilt. 284 pages plus 16 page publisher's catalogue. Coloured frontis. [very funny caption] with 5 other coloured plates, one has been torn across and repaired with stamp hinges. Covers worn at edges, inner hinge cracked and contents shaken, pages occasionally foxed but still an attractive copy of this children's classic by the mother of E. M. Delafield, author of The Provincial Lady series.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co. , 1907. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A charming edition of this children's book from Mrs Henry de la Pasture, or Lady Clifford. Illustrated with frontispiece, three full page images and many in-text sketches. Collated complete. A charming work of children's fiction confirmed to be "one of the great classics of its genre" by English journalist and novelist Auberon Waugh. Written by Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle, Lady Clifford, also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture, an English novelist, dramatist and children's writer best remembered for this work. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the board. Internally, binding loosening in places with the odd loose page, though all are present. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Good