224 pp, 10"" H. No date, but c1935. Cream cloth with blue lettering/decoration, silver crown and E on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian Jones and R.L. Brightwell. All plates and illustrations are present. Contents: A Children's Hospital in Wartime, by J.M. Barrie; Ham and the Porcupine, a ""Just-So"" Story, by Rudyard Kipling; Three Cuckoos in Search of a Village, a Story by Francis Brett Young; The Good Grocer (An Apology), A Poem by G.K. Chesterton; Pip, Squeak, Wilfred and Stanley, Their Life Stories, by ""Uncle Dick"" (B.J. Lamb); What the Black Chow Saw, a Story by Algernon Blackwood; Princess Jane of London Town, A Poem by Jan Struther; Rupert the Little Bear Goes Adventuring in the Robber's Den and with the Giants, by Mary Tourtel; The Fairy Washerwoman, a Story by Compton Mackenzie; Come and Change, a Poem by Herbert Asquith; The Unromantic Princess, a Story by Elizabeth Bowen; Young Waveney, an Episode in the Life of Mr. Chips, by James Hilton; Stars, a Memory Rhyme by Walter de la Mare; Check to the King of France, a One-Act Historical Play for Children, by Margaret Irwin; The Street Criers, a Poem by W.H. Davies; Woolly Bear's Aeroplane, a Story by Shirley Cooke; A Sixteenth Century Princess Elizabeth at Hatfield, a Poem by Lord David Cecil; Teddy Tail's Circus, a Story by Una L. Lascot; The Blue Chicken, a Hepsibah Hen Story, by Olwen Bowen; Harvest by the Sea, or Mr. Wacksparrow, Mr. Deebles and the Sea-Gull, a Story by L.A.G. Strong; The Story of Rather Greedy Little Hugh, by Denis Mackail; Putting Tucker to Bed, a Bed-time Conversation, by Enid Bagnold; Uncle Oojah's Little Princess, a Story by Flo Lancaster; The Little Chair with the Gold Thread, a Story by Hugh Walpole; For a Princess, a Poem by John Drinkwater. A soft faint crease at the top corner of page 217 to the end of the book, a small tear (archivally taped) at the fore-edges of the rear Mickey Mouse colour double spread, a few small areas of very light soiling on the boards, a small corner bump on the front board, small area of shelf soiling on the bottom of the text block, light wrinkling at the top/bottom of the spine. Dust jacket has general soiling, edge wear and edge tears, a few edge chips - a large one at the top of the spine with slight loss of the word 'Princess'. two liquid stains on the spine and a very small stain on the front panel picture, now protected in a removable Gaylord sleeve.
