The Childs Own Magazine 1918 #85

Various

Published by Publishing Office, Ludgate Hill, London, 1918

About this Item

Printers: Wyman and Sons Ltd London. Cover- plum cloth boards grey outlined in black titles front + spine. Printed paper over cloth colour illustration, excited little boy and girl in night clothes looking over stair rail with a candle. Illustration framed with green leaves + grey flower heads. 140 pages. End papers selection of period adverts: Fennings Childrens Powders. Harbutts plasticine. National Childrens Home. Bengers Food. Allenburys Foods. Red White & Blue coffee. Mackintoshs Toffee. Robinsons Barley. Lux. Dr J Collis Browne. Wood-Milne rubber heels. Lovely f/c frontis 'To the Rescue' by Nina Busby. Little girl blue dress black belt, short curly hair surrounded by butterfly fairies. They have come to the rescue of a fellow fairy who has been trapped in the girls net which is by her feet. b/w illustrations throughout. Contains stories, articles, poetry and games. Includes: The Picture For Daddy. A war-time story. Our Sunday Evening Talk. Burning the Bad Books. Story of Missionaries in India & Africa. How Two Children Fought A Puma. A Story From Vancouver. All the stories appear to have a moral. Condition: cloth boards thinning top/bottom spine, edges and corners. Tear bottom spine. Spine sunned, cover grubby discoloured with age, illustration 2 spot scratches, red cloth showing through. o/p cracked down seam webbing showing, makes binding wobbly. Some loose pages, none missing, pages tanned. The odd illustration neatly coloured. Seller Inventory # n00313

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Childs Own Magazine 1918 #85

Publisher: Publishing Office, Ludgate Hill, London

Publication Date: 1918

Binding: H/B

Illustrator: Various

Condition: Fair

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition