Mabel E Allen (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date. circa 1950's Front cover depicts three girls, one taking photographs of the other two with sea as a backdrop. Red linen spine. Previous owner's name inside ( dated 1954 ). Colour frontis plus further black and white illustrations. Scuffing to boards and some staining to some pages but in good overall condition for age of book. There is a pressed leaf in one of the pages probable from 1950's! Vintage children's book which is in good condition for its age. A much harder to find copy of "Ideal Book for Girls" at a very reasonable price. Would make a lovely VINTAGE gift!

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not dated, c.1940's. Size 9.75" x 7.25", 156 pages. Pictorial hard cover with red titles and a picture of a girl with brown hair and a red cardigan holding her dog. Condition very good, corners, edges and small piece on front rubbed, front endpapers grubby and marked, a few grubby marks in the margins else contents clean. With a colour frontispiece "The mobile policeman lay pinned beneath his motor-cycle" and further black and white illustrations throughout. The first story is "The Lights of Lambermere" by Bertha Leonard.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Marian Allen; (illustrator). 4to Hbk; G++; in dark green/blue repeating pattern print design cloth boards; this copy is different to the other Joy Streets It doesnt have the usual tipped in illustrations. Instead it has a section in the centre by the Macnairs - a Chinese story called 'ginger' illustrated in colour; a quite reasonable copy; occasional light markings; excess P&P outside UK. ; Joy Street; 4to 11" - 13" tall.