Ivy L. Wallace — The Animal Shelf Series

London, Collins, 1948-1951. First edition. Hardback. A delightful collection of seven volumes from The Animal Shelf Series by British author and illustrator Ivy Lilian Wallace. Seven volumes. First editions. Illustrated throughout with numerous full-page and in-text colour images. From the best-selling The Animal Shelf Series for younger children. The first two titles of The Animal Shelf series enchanted younger children and sold over 400,000 copies on publication. For over twenty years, Wallace's beautiful books became a publishing phenomenon and were worldwide bestsellers. Ivy also enjoyed a successful career as a writer-illustrator for Wm Collins & Sons and for other international publishers. In 1997 the books were adapted into an animated children's television series produced by Cosgrove Hall Films, about a group of talking toy animals who live in Timothy's bedroom. Written and illustrated by Ivy Lilian Wallace, a British author, illustrator, artist and actress, best known for writing and illustrating the best-selling Pookie series and The Animal Shelf series of children's books. This set contains: Stripey to the Rescue, 1948. Getup Crusoe, 1948. Kinker Visits the Animal Shelter, 1948. Woeful and The Waspberries, 1948. The Huge Adventure of Little Mut, 1949. Gumpa and the Paint Box, 1949. The Treasure Hunt, 1951. In the original pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor sunning to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Light chipping to the extremities resulting in minor loss or lifting to the head and tail of the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright very bright and clean. With a contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper of the odd volume. Good . Ill.: Ivy L. Wallace. Good .