Inchfawn (Philip & Fay, pseuds. Atkinson & Elizabeth Ward) The Golliwog News.
£125
A story of three children and a toy newspaper
London, S.W. Partridge, 1919.
Fourth edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket.
Elizabeth Rebecca Ward (2 December 1880 – 16 April 1978) was a prolific English writer of popular verse, religious works, and works for children, writing under the pen-name Fay Inchfawn. Her works were serialised in women’s magazines, and she was sometimes known as “The Poet Laureate of the Home”.
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Cloth very good; jacket with some chipping to spine ends and corners, closed tear near spine at lower panel, general minor rubbing.
Illustrations by T.C. Smith.
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