Stephen Southwold — Twilight Tales

London, Faber and Gwyer, Ltd. 1925. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this charming collection of short stories for children by Stephen Southwold, copiously illustrated throughout with beautiful black and white illustrations by Marion Board A first edition copy. Stephen Southwold was prolific British writer, who was born Stephen Henry Critten but wrote under a number of pseudonyms throughout his literary career, eventually changing his name to one of them, Stephen Southwold. Whilst Southwold first became well known for his numerous science fiction works, he also published 'conventional' novels and a large number of short stories. Indeed, these storied for children were at first exclusively written under his pseudonym 'Stephen Southwold&apos. In a red cloth binding with pictorial black stamping to the front board. Externally, slightly faded to spine. Small tidemark to tail of gutter to frontboard. Minor shelfwear to extremities. Internally fimrly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. SLight offsetting to half title page. Small closed tear to lower extremity of page 17/18. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Marion Board. Very Good Indeed .