Book Description

Once Upon A Time Children’s Annual 1920. The first year of issue. Authors and artists include E Nesbit, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Thomas Maybank, Flo Lancaster, Hilda Cowham, Harold Earnshaw, Eulalie and G E Studdy. There are 6 coloured plates and dozens of illustrations in colours and in b/w, long and short stories plus verses.208 pages; one colour plate has a short closed edge-tear, occasional marking to margins else contents generally very good. 240 x 190 mm [approx. 9 ½” x 7 ½”] cloth spine, pictorial boards; some grazing and wear at edges, very good bright condition. London: E Hulton & Co, inscription dated 1919 Contains the very first appearance of Oojah [the elephant] in a book. Flo Lancaster is the author and Thomas Maybank the illustrator. Oojah stories are fantasy adventures of a rather impressive dressed elephant and his friend Don, a young boy. After appearing recently in the Daily Sketch, Uncle Oojah became so popular that eventually he had his very own annuals published.
Author E Nesbit, Flo Lancaster and others
Date 1920
Binding Cloth spine, pictorial boards
Publisher E Hulton & Co
Illustrator Thomas Maybank, Hilda Cowham, Harold Earnshaw, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Eulalie, G E Studdy and others
Condition Very good
Pages 208

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