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RUPERT ANNUAL 1937 - MORE ADVENTURES OF RUPERT
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1305553
Published by Daily Express. 1937. Good condition.

The second Rupert annual. Colour pictorial boards showing Rupert and chums on a bridge. 1st story Rupert and the Snow Machine. Red cloth spine, black lettering. 124 pages. 7.5x10". Red and black illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped, cover edges worn. 1.5" pencil mark to front cover. Covers are slightly grubby. Joints are cracked. Name and date in ink in belongs to box. Child's pencil and pen scribbles/doodles to pastedowns and title-page and on verso. Contents are well fingered with a number of small tears or lost corners (no loss of text or images). Illustratons on 10 pages have been partly colour (not very well) with watercolour or crayon. A good copy.

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JAPHET & CO. ON ARKUB ISLAND
Written by J.F. Horrabin. Illustrated by J.F. Horrabin.
Stock no. 1704360
Published by News Chronicle. 1931. Very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, pictorial red front board. Colour & b/w illustrations. Edges bumped with some cracking to surface paper. Pages browned. A few pinholes to a couple of pages.

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BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 23RD YEAR
Written by Madeline Barnes; Will H. Ogilvie; Jessie Pope; Evelyn Smith; et al. Illustrated by Frank Adams; Warwick Reynolds; Harry Rountree; et al..
Stock no. 1305091
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1926. Good condition.

Orange cloth spine, front cover shows girl & boy reading a book on floor. Colour plates. Two-tone & b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn, some scuffing to front cover, rear cover slightly grubby and spine slightly darkened. Name and address in pencil in belongs to box. Some grubby fingermarks and light foxing to contents.

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THE GREYFRIARS HOLIDAY ANNUAL 1928
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1105416
Published by The Fleetway House. 1928. Good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth spine - pictorial covers. Includes Bunter. Edges are worn. Front endpaper is MISSING. Foxing to outer page edges. Belongs to box completed in ink.

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THE GREYFRIARS HOLIDAY ANNUAL 1980
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1304140
Published by Howard Baker Press. 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Green boards, gilt title to spine. Howard Baker Annual Volume No. 13. ISBN: 0703001760. Spine and corners bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is creased at top edges with a couple of closed tears to rear panel.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1995
Written by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1104948
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1995. Fine condition.

No. 60. 75th anniversary edition. Front cover shows Rupert on winged horse. ISBN: 1874507465. Still in original shrink wrap, which is becoming a little ragged at edges. Couple of corners have become bumped.

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THE KIDDIES' ANNUAL
Written by Fanny Hurrell; et al.
Stock no. 1102855
Published by The Epworth Press. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Front cover shows two children and a dog bursting out of a typed page. Cloth spine. First story is 'One of the Clan' by Fanny Hurrell. Wrapper is edge-torn with some loss.

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THE CHILD'S PICTORIAL ANNUAL VOLUME 1895
Written by Mrs. Molesworth; Theodore Wood; et al. Illustrated by W.J. Morgan; Charles Robinson; et al..
Stock no. 1801707
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1895. Almost very good condition.

Burgundy cloth spine. Cream pictorial boards. Colour and b/w text illustrations. Most illustrations by W.J. Morgan, a few early Charles Robinson illustrations, many illustrations not attributed. First story is "Mr. Old Year" by Mrs. Molesworth. B/w and colour illustrations throughout. Edges rubbed with slight loss of surface paper.Joints cracked, hinges tight. A few margin marks but contents generally nice and clean.

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PLAYBOX ANNUAL 1954
No author listed.
Stock no. 1701649
Published by The Fleetway House. 1954. Very good condition.

Green cloth spine. Front cover shows young girl and boy on raft. Corners are worn. Spine is faded. Surface damage to rear pastedown.

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NISTER'S HOLIDAY ANNUAL FOR 1891
Written by C.J. L'Estrange; Mrs. Molesworth; L. Haskell; et al.
Stock no. 1801464
Published by Ernest Nister. 1891. Almost very good condition.

A Volume of Pictures & Stories for Little Folk. Edited by L'Estrange. Blue cloth spine is untitled. Pictorial paper front board shows older child reading a book to young child sat on her lap and two young girls at her feet with cats around. 6 Chromolithographs and many b/w illustrations. Some surface paper loss to lower front corner of covers, edges rubbed, corners worn. Boards scuffed and marked. Front endpaper missing. Joints pulled. Small closed tear and slight loss to lower corner of half-title page. Page-edge browning. A few marks to contents but generally a nice copy with all plates present.

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THE BEEZER BOOK 1984
No author listed.
Stock no. 1701467
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1984. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0851162835. Wear to corners and top and tail of spine. Price-cut.

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THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL - VOLUME 16
Written by Gordon Stables; Talbot Baines Reed; Frederick Treves; W.J. Gordon; Jules Verne; Theodore Wood; et al. Illustrated by Gordon Browne; H.M. Paget; et al..
Stock no. 1201240
Published by The Boy's Own Paper. 1894. Slightly better than good condition.

Vol XVI on spine. Large format. Green pictorial cloth. Gilt titles. 12 colour plates. Book: all plates present. Slight damage to one plate. Joints cracked. Prelims slightly loose. Some foxing to margins. Name stamp to top and bottom of text block. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine a little faded.

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