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MERRY ANIMAL TALES
Written by Madge A. Bigham. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1405820
Published by George G. Harrap & Company. 1919. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth spine with pale green paper boards & pictorial onlay to front, dark titles, 9.75 x 7". 4 colour plates. 127 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine browned. Covers are grubby and a little marked. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Front endpaper lightly creased. Endpapers browned. Foxing mostly to page edges.

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DUNCTON TALES
Written by William Horwood.
Stock no. 1405712
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1991. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

All is not well in Duncton Wood. Moledom is dangerously complacent about the spread of zealots from Caer Caradoc, continuing perhaps the finest imaginative journey of our time. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. ISBN: 0002236761. Spine, corners and bottom of rear board bumped. Foxing mainly to page edges and prelims. Dustwrapper is a little edge rubbed. Barcoded price label to rear panel.

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THE BOX OF 'MRS' BOOKS
Written by Lawson Wood. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 1316083
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

A small square box (4.25 x 4.25") containing six of the "Mrs." books: Mrs. Purr; Mrs. Nibble; Mrs. Cackle, Mrs. Polly, Mrs. Bear and Mrs. Waddle. Each book has pictorial paperwraps, colour and two-tone illustrations. 2 of the volumes (Cackle and Polly) have small marks to covers, 1 volume has a couple of tiny edge tears to front cover. Books are otherwise bright and clean.Box is very worn, half of top of box missing.

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BABAR'S KINGDOM
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 1316075
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1970. Very good condition.

Little Babar Books 7. Smaller format, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416154808. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some slight creasing to page corner tips.

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LONG LIVE KING BABAR!
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 1316074
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1970. Very good condition.

Little Babar Books 8. Small format, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416154204. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Remains of original price label to rear cover. Contents clean.

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BABAR'S DAY OUT
Written by Laurent De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 1316072
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1971. Slightly better than very good condition.

7.5 x 6". Yellow pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Little Babar Books 14. ISBN: 0416154700. Spine and corners just a little bumped and worn. Contents fine. Remains of original price label to rear cover.

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CAT & CANARY
Written by Michael Foreman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1405642
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1984. Almost very good condition.

Tall format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 086264075X. SIGNED by author to half title page. Top of spine badly bumped. Corners and bottom of spine a little bumped. Surface paper damage to rear pastedown. Small closed tear to rear endpaper. Contents very good.

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TOP OF THE HEAP
Written by Ant Belmont. Illustrated by Ant Belmont.
Stock no. 2121934
Published by Ant Belmont. 1st 2013. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Green boards; gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780957550506. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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ENID BLYTON'S FIFTH BRER RABBIT BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Grace Lodge.
Stock no. 1315896
Published by Latimer House. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Blue boards, black titles and vignette to front. B/w illustrations. Spine very slightly bumped. Fading to spine and to front cover edges. A few light fingermarks to page margins and a couple of page corners creased. Dustwrapper has large vertical tears across both panels and has been repaired with 'magic tape' (on front), there is a small piece of loss to lower edge of front panel. The wrapper has been neatly mounted onto stiff paper. A scarce Blyton in decent condition.

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THE TALE OF TOMBO
Written by Ada Harrison. Illustrated by Robert Austin.
Stock no. 1405583
Published by J. Fairston. Slightly better than good condition.

Number One of the Tally-Ho Books. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Tombo is a monkey. 47 pages. 7" x 4.5". Spine and corners grubby. Covers creased and grubby. Closed tear to the top of one page. Some grubby marks.

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THE TALE OF JOHNNY TOWN-MOUSE
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 2121591
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Fair condition.

Pictorial onlay to covers; white titles. 84 numbered pages. Colour illustrations. Split nearly all way down front side of spine; so webbing etc. underneath can be seen. Marks and wear to covers. Foxing to outer page edges. A few margin marks. A reading copy. No date or printer's code, quite an early reprint.

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A BABY SISTER FOR FRANCES
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Stock no. 2121584
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1965. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. Colour illustrations. Frances the appealing little badger who is the heroine of 'Bedtime for Frances', has now acquired a baby sister! ISBN: 0571092284. Book has been covered with clear adhesive film. Some uneven browning; a few grubby marks. Creasing to corners. A few marks to outer page edges.

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