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Blue cloth slightly rubbed on spine tips, corners and top of spine a little bumped, a few light marks, 4 lovely colour plates + some chapter headings & tailpieces by FRANK WATKINS, slight internal and foredge foxing, else vg. large 8vo, 135pp.

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1920s, abridged]/ [1910]. Octavo, 96 pages with numerous illustrations (several full-page) by Helen Jacobs. Blind-stamped cloth slightly flecked and rubbed; spine lightly sunned; gutters slightly discoloured; pencilled ownership signature; overall an excellent copy. Happy Hour Stories series.

The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes With four illustrations in colour by Frank Watkins. Publisher: Cassell and Company, 1945, Second Australian Edition. Blue cloth hardback in lovely condition. Minor edge-wear. Gift inscription dated 1945 to ffep. Pages lightly tanned but very good. A little foxing to page edges. All 4 illustrations in very good order.

154 pp, 7 1/2" H. No date, but probably c1940 with the 'wartime' paper of that era. Medium green boards with black lettering on spine and front board, dust jacket with pastedown illustration. 4 colour plates (including frontispiece) - all present. A charming collection of stories and poems by the New Zealand author and educator, mixing fairy fantasy with tales of the natural world. Contents include: The Sun-Man's Babies; The Snowdrop Baby; The Apple Fairy; Daffodils; May Fairies; Billybuzz the Drone; Spinny Spider; The Mosquito Babies; Sally Snail's Wanderings; Milly Mushroom; The Leaf Fairies; Bunny-Boy; The Hill Princess; Urchins in the Sea; Wher White Waves Play; Fanny Fly; The Wheat People; The Disobedient Sunbeams; A Trip into the Country; The Season Fairies; etc., etc. Light browning to pages and endpapers, light edge wear at corners and top/bottom of spine, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, moderate browning to edges of text block, small bump at top corner of both boards, tiny dent on front board. Dust jacket has a few small chips - mainly at top of spine and top of front flap fold, closed irregular tear on spine, spine/flap folds are slightly darkened, some foxing on rear panel, light edge wear/wrinkling and one or two small edge tears, protected in a mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1911 reprint of 1910 First Edition, with four, full plate, illustrations in colour by Frank Watkins. Boards are clean with minimal corner bumping. Spine a little faded still with bright, gilt titles and motif. Foxing to prelims and occasional throughout, though all plates are clean and bright. Tissue guard before title page still present. A good+, sound copy of this quite scarce, very early edition.

Complete with all plates and pages. early edition. the boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. some foxing. all pages clear and legible. a few inscriptions. [SK]

Complete with all plates and pages. early edition. the boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. some foxing. all pages clear and legible. a few inscriptions. [SK]