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CHALKY THE CHIMP GOES TO FAIRYLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 1108864
Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Pictorial cardwraps. Pictures to colour with chalk or crayons. Red/brown paper with blue outlines of characters to colour. Chalky is printed in blue, green and orange. A few spots and scuffing to contents but unused.

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PEINES DE COEUR D'UNE CHATTE ANGLAISE
Written by Honore De Balzac.
Stock no. 1108863
Published by Publications Willy Fischer. Circa 1978. Almost very good condition.

Cream cardwraps. Theatre programme and story. Text in French. B/w illustrations and photos on stage. Surface paper loss to cover edges. Covers grubby. Damp stain to lower margins throughout.

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THOMAS PURRKIN, C.B.E. CAT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Written by Lawrence Henry. Illustrated by John Turner.
Stock no. 1108862
Published by Somers. Circa 1947. Good condition.

Spiral bound paperwraps. Clear laminate cover with white title, colour pictorial front cover below the clear laminate. Colour plates & b/w illustrations. 24 pages plus a copy of the Feline Times as issued. Front cover worn at spiral binding and starting to detach. Spiral is pulling out of shape. Other pages starting to loosen from binding also. A few marks and light creasing to contents. The Feline Times supplement has a horizontal tear across the fold. Rear cover missing. Contents VG.

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ROSEMARY ANNE'S LITTLE WHITE MOUSE
No author listed.
Stock no. 1108860
Slightly better than very good condition.

Storyland Series, No. 22. Pictorial paperwraps show Rosemary Anne on a river bank with Trixie the little white mouse in a shoe on the river. Colour & b/w illustrations. Unpaginated. A nice clean copy.

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BABY'S OWN ANNUAL 1936
No author listed.
Stock no. 1108859
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1936. Good condition.

Large format. Stiff cardwraps. Nursery rhymes, ABC, reading primer. Covers grubby and worn at edges. Inscription in ink to top of verso of front cover. A few pencil scribbles. Contents have a generally grubby appearance.

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ADVENTURES BY LEAF LIGHT
Written by Moyra Caldecott. Illustrated by Lyn Teeple; Bill Teeple.
Stock no. 1108858
Published by Green Tiger Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

A Star & Elephant Book. Pictorial card wraps. Delightful colour tipped in plates throughout. Large format. 46 pages. Covers scuffed, edge-worn and a little grubby. Contents clean. Small creases to corners of a couple of plates.

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FOR TODAY
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 1402099
Published by Valentine & Sons, Limited. Very good condition.

A Golden Thoughts booklet. Small format. Pictorial paperwraps. Ever so cute chubby children and rhymes. Covers a little grubby. Small split to top of spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front cover. Pale page browning to some page edges and margins otherwise contents are bright.

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THE PEDALLING MAN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Stock no. 1108841
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poems about animals, people, both big and small, and about those things and those moments in life that are worth holding on to. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 33 pages. ISBN: 043746704X. SIGNED with dedication by the author to free front endpaper (For The Creators of Tindlebaum, Unlimited, from a Very Grateful Russ). Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is grubby and unevenly faded.

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MR POPPLECORN & FOUR LITTLE HENS
Written by Margaret Musson. Illustrated by Kathleen Burrell.
Stock no. 1108840
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

How Mr Popplecorn pretended he was a boy again by keeping hens and collecting their eggs. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Full-page colour and two-tone text illustrations. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Contents clean.

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SMILES AND DIMPLES: HAPPY HOURS FOR LITTLE PETS
Written by J.D..
Stock no. 1108838
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. 2nd 1892. Very good condition.

Second Edition. Pictorial glazed boards show a young girl in a high chair with title banner and cat looking up at two butterflies. First story is 'A Lesson in Kindness'. 4 Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 70 pages. Cracking to laminate at spine edge with some loss of surface paper. Corners worn. Boards bowed. Contemporary inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. A few marks to contents but generally a lovely copy.

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PEDRO AND ANGELIQUE
Written by Gaye Knowles. Illustrated by Gaye Knowles.
Stock no. 1108833
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Pedro was a market boy who grew vegetables for a living. Angelique was his little donkey, and they were very happy together until one day... Blue paper boards. Colour illustrations. 48 pages. Boards clean and bright. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers and a few margin marks else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is lightlly worn at edges with small chips, heavily foxed.

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LADY PORKS
Written by Anthea Bennett. Illustrated by Anthea Bennett.
Stock no. 1108831
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1953. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A story and pictures by Anthea Bennett (Aged 10). Blue boards, gilt titles and vignette. B/w illustrations to each page with easy to read text below each illustration. 128 pages. 7.5 x 5". Minor foxing and grubby margin marks present. Pink wrapper is edge-worn and grubby, faded at spine and chipped to top & tail with slight loss.

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