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    By Various
    London   Playbox Annual
    11" by 8.5" 160; 111, [1]; 94; 96pp
    Four popular 'Playbox Annuals', entertaining annuals for children lavishly illustrated throughout and with many brilliant tales throughout.
    By Various

    1934-55 Playbox Annual

    London   Playbox Annual
    11" by 8.5" 160; 111, [1]; 94; 96pp
    Four popular 'Playbox Annuals', entertaining annuals for children lavishly illustrated throughout and with many brilliant tales throughout.
    £55.00
    : 3kgs / : 837P33
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    Four of the popular 'Playbox Annual', for the years 1935, 1936, 1950, and 1955.

    Offering a charming insight into childhood in the 1930s and 1950s, these annuals are full of many entertaining tales, comic strips, and poems.

    Stories and poems in these volumes include 'The Fiery Cross', a historical tale of two brave little Saxon children who show that they are loyal subjects of King Alfred, 'The Little Royalist', 'The New Girl', 'Timothy Sweeps the Chimney', 'The Boy Who Dared', 'Trixie Pixie's Wedding', 'Magic That Went Wrong', 'The Royal Tub Drill', 'Robin Hood's Capture', 'Tess of the Tight Rope', 'The Emperor's Garden Fair', and many more.

    1934 illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and many monochrome and colour in-text illustrations.

    1936 illustrated with many monochrome and colour in-text illustrations.

    1950 illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and many monochrome and colour in-text illustrations.

    1956 illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and many monochrome and colour in-text illustrations.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Spines are lightly discoloured and faded. Some minor marks to the boards and spines. A little loss of paper to the rear board of 1955. Front hinge of 1934 is starting. Hinges of 1936 are strained, rear hinge a little weak, front endpaper has been removed. Head of the front endpaper of 1934 has been excised, with charming colour stencil paintings by a prior owner to the verso of the front endpaper and to the reverse of the frontispiece. Prior owner's ink to the recto of the front endpaper of 1950 and 1955. Small amount of loss to the bottom edge of the front endpaper of 1955. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional spot and handling mark. Pages 54 and 56 of 1934, page 33 of 1936, with a prior owner's colour painting to the illustrations.

    Very Good

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