THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR GIRLS 10TH YEAR
Written by Bessie Marchant, C. Bernard Rutley, Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Thora Stowell, et al
Illustrated by C.E. Brock, Joan Griffith, Mary Strange Reeve, M.A. Peart, et al.
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press
in 1928
THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR GIRLS 10TH YEAR
Written by Bessie Marchant, C. Bernard Rutley, Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Thora Stowell, et al.
Illustrated by C.E. Brock, Joan Griffith, Mary Strange Reeve, M.A. Peart, et al..
Stock no. 1324967
1928.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.
Pictorial front cover shows two young ladies in cloche hats carrying Christmas presents. Pictorial spine. Orange and grey endpapers showing an Arabian scene. 6 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Cover edges rubbed. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers partly browned. Foxing to contents and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some loss to top edge of rear panel, foxed on verso with some light foxing showing through to front panel.
Front cover
Contents
- By C. Bernard Rutley. A Race for Ald
- By Thora Stowell. Sunflowers
- By The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce. Where Evening joins the Dawn
- By Alice Massie. Miss Connington
- By Shirley Grey. White Heather
- By Margaret Baker. The Tale of Meironwen Myfanwy Marged Jones
- By Roberta Mansfield. Margot the Romanctic
- By Thora Stowell. The Almond Tree
- By S. M. Hills. An Adventure in the Roussillon
- By Thora Stowell. Autumn Wind
- By Eleanor E. Helme. Some Golfing Advice
- By Margaret Stuart Lane. The Foundling
- By Thura Lifford. Pudson's Pet Preserve
- By Katharine Tynan. The Story of Princess Olga
- By Hilary Arden. Winning her Colours
- By Jan and Cora Gordon. Tramping it in Spain
- By Flora Forster. Here by Goblets
- By Bessie Marchant. Joan's Waring
- By Beryl Irving. Something Attempted
- By C. Bernard Rutley. The Relief of Fox Lake: A Story of 1813
- By Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Dimsie Wins Throuhg
- By Thora Stowell. The Camel Driver
- By M. A. Peart. The Strange Sedan
- By Lilian Quiller Couch. Our Jingle Jaunt
- By Eileen Wright. The Knight Errant
- By Alice Massie. Catarina of the Grand Canal
- By Ierne L. Plunket. Helping Chubbles
- Colour Drawings
- By C. E. Brock. 'It was speed alone that brought Joyce safely across'
- By Mary Strange Reeve. 'She stood full i the middle of the road with both hands upraised'
- by Mary Strange Reeve. 'There's a pretty lass for you!'
- By Jan Gordon. A Rest at Noon
- By Beryl Irving. 'A Wave flung the dingy against Stormalong'
- By M. A. Peart. 'I could trace that river for ever,' she said, 'and yet be always happy'