![Lavinia Derwent. The caravan boy. Illustrated by Lorna A. Steele. Christchurch [N.Z.]: Whitcombe and Tombs [1959].](https://www.reedgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/tales-from-a-long,-bright-land/2/2a.webp)
Case 2 - C is for Classics from Whitcombe and Tombs
![Lavinia Derwent. The caravan boy. Illustrated by Lorna A. Steele. Christchurch [N.Z.]: Whitcombe and Tombs [1959].](https://www.reedgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/tales-from-a-long,-bright-land/2/2a.webp)
![Little women; adapted from the story by Louisa M. Alcott. Christchurch, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs [1948].](https://www.reedgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/tales-from-a-long,-bright-land/2/2b.webp)
Little women; adapted from the story by Louisa M. Alcott. Christchurch, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs [1948].
![The last days of Pompeii; adapted from the story by Lord Lytton. Auckland [N.Z.]: Whitcombe & Tombs [1930].](https://www.reedgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/tales-from-a-long,-bright-land/2/2c.webp)
The last days of Pompeii; adapted from the story by Lord Lytton. Auckland [N.Z.]: Whitcombe & Tombs [1930].
![Edith Howes. Young pioneers. Auckland [N.Z.]: Whitcombe and Tombs [1934].](https://www.reedgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/tales-from-a-long,-bright-land/2/2d.webp)
Edith Howes. Young pioneers. Auckland [N.Z.]: Whitcombe and Tombs [1934].
![Little Nell; adapted from Charles Dickens’ “The old curiosity shop”. Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs [1946].](https://www.reedgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/tales-from-a-long,-bright-land/2/2e.webp)