Search Results: a holiday at the seaside by malcolm penelope

Australian fantasy. (Melbourne: The Valentine Publishing Co./Photolithographed by Modern Printing Co.: no date) Muir 4737 says ‘[Copyright 1946]’. Code below colophon at rear is ‘9352’. Pictorial wrappers with cloth spine, pp. 20 (311 x 209 mm) Illustrated by Jay Ellen (Jean Elder?) including six full-page colour pictures. Neat gift inscription dated 1948 on front wrapper; a very good copy.

City Not Stated: Publisher Not Stated [Valentine], 1945. Paperback narrow quarto, very good condition, stapled pamphlet (novelty design, human shape), colour & sepia (brown-coloured) drawings, corner rear cover creased, minor edgewear, owner's written name. 10 pp. Peggie and her dog Laddie and companions play on the beach. Text in verse. (Not listed in Trove. Estimated date, 1940s. This novelty booklet has drawings that are similar in style - but not shape - to the book "A Holiday at the Seaside" by Penelope Malcolm, published by Valentine Publishing, Melbourne, 1940s, 3 copies of which are listed in in Trove.).