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JUMPING MOUSE
Written by Brian Patten. Illustrated by Mary Moore.
Stock no. 1805435
Published by The Hawthorn Press. 2nd 2010. Nearly fine condition.

Second Edition. A folk-tale. Purple pictorial boards and endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781903458990. Light scuffing to covers, contents fine.

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LITTLE LAMB
Written by Dahris Martin. Illustrated by Lilly Somppi.
Stock no. 2106463
Published by Collins. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Green cloth with dark green title to front. Charming colour illustrations to every other page. Browning to endpapers. Some foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with browning, foxing, a few marks and some chips/nicks; closed tear to rear panel. A lovely little book!

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QUEER CREATURES
Written by E.S.T.. Illustrated by E.S.T..
Stock no. 1307031
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Beige cloth spine, grey pictorial boards. 80 pages. B/w text illustrations. Verses describing very peculiar creatures! Spine bumped, corners slightly worn. Some discolouration to covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Front joint broken at lower 4" (causing first couple of gatherings to be part detached). Contents clean.

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BOB BUSHTAIL'S ADVENTURE
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 2105226
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 7th 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 401. Brown boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Revised verses by Perring. Fading and foxing to a couple of cover edges. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Heavy creasing to just two pages. Wrapper is chipped/nicked to edges, with a few scuffs and grubby marks.

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HONK THE MOOSE
Written by Phil Stong. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
Stock no. 1305782
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1936. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Green pictorial paperboards. Cloth spine. Illustrated endpapers. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. The fair dustwrapper (large amount of loss to front corner) - looks like it has been attached by book worm! - has done it's job and kept the boards bright and clean. Lower edges of boards are just ever so slightly rubbed. Prize plate to front pastedown. Endpapers very lightly browned. Some light fingering to page margins else contents clean.

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THE BLACK PATCH PIRATES
Written by Robert Aitchen. Illustrated by Robert Aitchen.
Stock no. 1305781
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Colour pictorial boards. Superb full-page colour illustrations plus b/w drawings. Spine and corners bumped, covers edge worn. Some very light foxing and fingering, title-page and last text page lightly browned. Contents clean.

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THE ROBBER KITTEN
Written by R.M. Ballantyne. Illustrated by F.A. Williams.
Stock no. 1305765
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1931. Very good condition.

Large format. Burgundy cloth spine, pictorial front board. 32 pages. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. Green, brown and white pictorial endpapers. Spine slightly bumped and worn. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Small grubby mark to front endpaper. Contents clean.

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LITTLE RACCOON AND NO TROUBLE AT ALL
Written by Lilian Moore. Illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi.
Stock no. 1206260
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1972. Very good condition.

Pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations. 48 pages.

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WANDERING WIND
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1204662
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1961. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Hamish Hamilton Reindeer Book. Yellow boards, blue titles. Blue reindeer vignette to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations. 121 pages. New endpapers. Tapemarks to board edges. Wrapper edge-torn with loss, reinforced at edge and stained.

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JIMMY THE BABY ELEPHANT
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by S.G. Hulme Beaman.
Stock no. 1204471
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1927. Nearly fine condition.

Out of the Ark series. Small format. White pictorial paperwraps. B/w and colour illustrations.

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FORAGER HIS ADVENTURES
Written by May Byron. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1105953
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1912. Good condition.

Happy Family Series No. 6. Brown boards, pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Title on cover is 'Cecil Aldin's Happy Family'. 8 x 7.5 inches. Joints badly cracked showing webbing. Lacks front endpaper. Rear endpaper detached and torn with loss. Three pages with an edge tear. Spine slightly split and worn at base. Corners rubbed. Covers grubby. Colour plates bright.

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THE HAPPY FARM
No author listed.
Stock no. 1204409
Published by Collins. Nearly fine condition.

Magic Circle Books Series. Large format. Pictorial card wraps. 2 full page transforming pictures and two tone text illustrations. An immaculate copy of a scarce book. Undated but probably 1950s.

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