Not common any more but a well known series through the 40's, 50's and beyond. This 1st Edition (1921), 4to, yellow cloth backed colour illustrated boards (girl and boy on swing), black illustration and lettering to spine, 192 pages. 14 lovely colour plates including Lawson Wood (1), Honor Appleton (1 plus lovely line illustrated endpapers), Florence M. Anderson, E. Dorothy Rees, Florence Harrison, Alan Wright, N.K. Brisley, J.L. Brisley (2) and Ruth Cobb (2). Black and white illustrations by H.M. Brock, Alice Woodward, Vernon Stokes, Florence Harrison and others. The first story: How We Kept Shop. Authors include Angela Brazil (The Last Day of the Holidays, 6 pages), Alice Talwin Morris and Ada L. Harris (A Return to Wonderland in which the March Hare, the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse write invitations to another tea party, the Cheshire cat looking on, 6 pages and 2 black and white illustrations). Corners rubbed, contents appear clean. A near Fine tight bright copy. Honor Appleton's plate The Picture Book shows a little girl by a window enjoying her book, a doll and other books on the floor. 9 illustrations are dated 1920 with no other dates, so it is likely that it was the edition for 1921 issued just before the end of 1920 to catch the Christmas market.