Basil Blackwell, Oxford, nd. [Circa 1926.] 10" X 7" X 2". Volume # Four, from the 14-volume "Joy Street" set, published annually in Great Britain from 1923 - 1936. W/ 8 tipped-in color plates by Marian Allen, Harry Rountree, Roy Meldrum, A. H. Watson, C. T. Nightingale & G. M. Gravill. Numerous
b/w text illustrations throughout, many full-page, by various artists. Gray & green decorative cloth, dyed top-edge, matching end-papers, green letters. Spine bumping, head & foot, corners - 2 tiny frays at corners of the head. Spine is lightly rubbed/worn, mainly along the gutters, with other minor blemishes to both covers. The front end-paper is partially yellowed from age/previous newspaper clipping???. Dyed top-edge is partially sun-faded. The 3rd tipped-in plate ("Princess Jil") is dog-earred at the bottom corner & plate # 5 ("Oranges") likewise, with a sliver of the bottom corner missing. The book is somewhat canted, with a bit of separation at the head, but still tightly bound. Both hinges are sound. 228 pages.
"A Medley of Prose and Verse for Boys and Girls". Contains stories by Walter de la Mare, Laurence Housman, Lord Dusany, Rose Fyleman, Hilaire Belloc, Hugh Chesterman, Mabel Marlowe, Valery Carrick, Barabare E. Todd, Madeleine Nightingale, Compton Mackenzie, Roy Meldrum & J. R. Monsell.
