[1927] The Play's The Thing! Musical Plays for Children

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition of the work.

In publisher's original red cloth binding with decorative endpapers and spine.

With a frontispiece, 23 plates and numerous musical scores throughout. Collated, complete.

Enid Blyton was an English children's writer, widely regarded as one of the most successful and prolific writers of all time for children's literature. Blyton has had many worldwide bestsellers, with more than 600 million copies sold and translated to ninety languages.

This delightful copy holds Blyton's 12 plays made for children to perform, with music written by English composer Alec Rowley, and charming plates by Alfred Bestall, the illustrator for Rupert Bear for the London Daily Express in the 1930s.