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HELLO TWINS
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Molly Brett.
Stock no. 594717
Published by The Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1951. Very good condition.

Enid Blyton 'Little' Book No 4. Small format. Pictorial card wraps with cloth spine. Colour and b/w illustrations to text. Illustrations in the 1st edition are wrongly credited to Molly Brett - they were actually done by E. Soper. Light creasing to covers. Staples are started to rust a little through spine.

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THE RIVER POST
Written by Hertha Von Gebhardt; Oliver Coburn. Illustrated by Irene Schreiber.
Stock no. 594764
Published by Burke Publishing Company Ltd.. 1st UK 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. B/w and green and black illustrations. Translated and adapted by Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger. A few light marks to covers. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut, with piece cut off rear flap too; also a little grubby, with a few edge-nicks.

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THE PIE AND THE PATTY-PAN
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 594580
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Larger format maroon paper-covered boards. Picture of Miss Ribby in a small circle on front cover. Mottled lilac endpapers (changed to pictures of the patty-pan in later editions). 52 pages. 7.25 x 5.5". First printing of the first edition. Spine repaired with very slight loss at top and tail. Corners worn. Slight fading to covers with a few very small marks. Name in ink to front pastedown. Light marks to contents but still a bright copy of the first edition.

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THE STORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Evelyn Bowmar.
Stock no. 378830
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 9th 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 413. Illustrated buff boards. Full-page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut, edge rubbed and creased with a 1" tear to lower corner of rear panel.

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CHILD'S EYE
Written by Gillian Avery.
Stock no. 594498
Published by Channel 4. 1st 1989. Very good condition.

A History of Children's Books Through Three Centuries. Card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 1851440889. A couple of light marks to covers. Corners are lightly creased.

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BOBBIE BRUIN FROLICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 594499
Published by Mulder & Zoon. Very good condition.

Square format. Pictorial boards. Open me out and change my clothes! A novelty bear and picture story book. Colour illustrations. Some light wear along cover edges. Teddy bear still opens out and is in very good condition!

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RHODA OR THE EXCELLENCE OF CHARITY
No author listed.
Stock no. 594503
Published by Grant and Griffith. Circa 1851. Fair condition.

Small format. Blue cloth with gilt title to front cover. B/w plates. Most of backstrip is missing. Fronits is detached. Binding is loose. Contents are foxed. A working copy only.

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TEDDY
No author listed.
Stock no. 594509
Very good condition.

A Shaped pictorial paperwraps book. Colour illustrated all the way through, with text beneath. It starts off 'Everybody knows that bears like honey....A very slim volume - only a few pages long. Light wear to cover edges. Some rusting to staples. Brown mark to inside front cover.

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WAS DREI KLEINE BAREN IM WALDE ERLEBTEN
Written by Margarethe Thiele. Illustrated by F. Schenkel.
Stock no. 594523
Published by Verlag Fur Jugend Und Volk. Very good condition.

Yellow cloth spine. Pictorial front cover. 7 colour plates. Text in German. A few small marks to covers. Plates are beautifully bright. Some page edge browning.

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MY POP-OUT BOOK OF SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
No author listed.
Stock no. 594526
Published by Purnell. 1970. Very good condition.

Fairytale Pop-outs Series. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. 4 pop-out scenes with text pages in between. ISBN: 0361014872. Spine and corners are a bit bumped and worn, with little chipping to laminate. All pop-ups are in very good working order - 1 has a tiny tear to it.

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JAPHET AND HAPPY'S ANNUAL 1939
Written by J.F. Horrabin. Illustrated by J.F. Horrabin.
Stock no. 594425
Published by News Chronicle Publications. 1939. Good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth spine. Pictorial front cover shows a snow scene with a tortoise being surprised by a snow ball. Colour frontis + 4 other colour plates. Two-tone and b/w strip pictures. First story is 'The Shipwrecked Mariner'. Wear and bumping, with chipping to cover edges. Grubby and damp marks to rear cover. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Grubby marks to pages. A couple of plates have edge-tears to them (Some repaired).

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GOOD COMPANIONS
No author listed.
Stock no. 594481
Published by The Sunshine Press. Circa 1940. Almost very good condition.

A collection of short stories for children. First story is 'The Butterfly Hunters' by Cicely M. Drury. Blue pictorial paper boards showing young boy in his sailor outfit carrying a toy boat with a young girl in yellow dress holding hook and terrier on leash. B/w illustrations, colour plates. Edges rubbed, corners worn. 0.25" loss to top of spine affecting title, base of spine split to either side. Large inscription in ink to front pastedown has imprinted on to half-title page. Contents clean.

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