E. Nesbit — Oswald Bastable and Others

London, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of short stories from English writer Edith Nesbit. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-one plates. Collated complete. A charming collection of short stories, four of which follow the fictional character of Oswald Bastable of The Treasure Seekers. With titles such as: The Runaways, The Ring and The Lamp, and Billy the King. Written by Edith Nesbit. an English writer and poet, who published her books for children. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock, a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator, and Harold Robert Millar, a prominent and prolific Scottish graphic artist and illustrator. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and fading to the extremities. The odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Age toning to the endpapers with previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: Charles E. Brock; H. R. Millar. Very Good .