Stories for Reading and Telling: Short and Simple Tales

First edition.  224pp, with colour plate frontispiece (by H M Brock), further colour plate illustrations and  line drawings in text.  Decorated red cloth-covered boards with blind embossed titles on front panel, gilt titles on spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little worn and pushed at corners and spine ends.  Some spotting on text block edges and some mild toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original paper, decorated dust wrapper, worn, torn and toned with minor loss at spine ends. A lovely vintage volume of children's stories by various authors, including Edna Lake, Alice Talwin Morris, A T M, Ethel Talbot, Natalie Joan, Mrs Henry Clarke, J D Westwood and many others.