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FUN WITH HONK
Written by Joy K. Seddon.
Stock no. 1318423
Published by The Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1953. Very good condition.

A strip book. Very small format, pictorial cardwraps. Two-tone illustrations. 124 frames. Covers creased. Staples rusty. Rear cover has erased pencil and crayon markings. Small margin tear to title-page. Some light margin marks else contents clean.

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JIMMY AT THE ZOO
Written by Neville Main.
Stock no. 1318421
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1953. Very good condition.

A Strip Book. Pictorial card wraps with red spine. 124 frames. Staples rusty. Some creases to covers. Contents clean.

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A SIX-YEARS' DARLING
Written by Ismay Thorn. Illustrated by T. Pym.
Stock no. 1318377
Published by John F. Shaw & Co.. Circa 1890. Good condition.

Or... Trix in Town. New edition. Pale blue boards, illustrations to front board. 112 pages with catalogue to rear. Floral decorated endpapers. B/w frontis and text decorations. Spine replaced. Boards worna and grubby. Joints repaired with blue paper tape. Heavy foxing to contents and some fingermarks to page margins.

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THE CHUMMY BOOK - NINTH YEAR
Written by Edwin Chisholm; Dorothy Russell; Constance Heward; Dixon Rutherford; et al. Illustrated by Peter Fraser; Honor C. Appleton; Hilda Cowham; Mabel Lucie Attwell; et al..
Stock no. 1318355
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

Pictorial front cover shows black cat and white dog, blue spine with white titles and horse's head. First story is 'The Housing Problem'. 287 pages plus one page book list. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Small dent to top edge of rear cover. Vertical crease to rear cover. Endpapers browned. Heavy foxing to contents, mainly textblock and some other marks.

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LIE-DOWN STORIES
Written by Natalie Joan. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1318353
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1930. Almost very good condition.

Stories by Natalie Joan, delightfully illustrated with 8 colour plates and b/w drawings in the text. Beige cloth spine with black title, pictorial front board showing mother putting child to bed. 77 pages. 10" x 7.25". Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Front joint has been repaired with white paper tape. Contents are pulled causing them to be a little loose. Some light foxing and other marks but generally contents clean.

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THE JENNY WREN STORY BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell; H.M. Brock; et al..
Stock no. 1318352
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Large format. Green cloth spine, pictorial front board. 2 colour plates by Lucie Attwell, B/w text illustrations by various artists. First story is "The Sick Doll's Diary". 9.75" x 7". Spine and corners worn, lower 1" of spine was split and has been glued down. Edges rubbed. Joints cracked. Foxing and grubby fingermarks to contents.

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THE MYSTERY OF TALLY-HO COTTAGE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Treyer Evans.
Stock no. 1318340
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The Twelfth mystery for the Five Find-Outers and their dog. It all centres around Tally-Ho Cottage down by the river and features two Runaways, a stolen picture and a little white poodle. Blue boards, magnifying glass vignette to front. B/w illustrations. Being the Twelfth Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog. Spine and corners bumped. Page browning and foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with loss at spine and corners.

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SIX O'CLOCK TALES
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler.
Stock no. 1318335
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 2nd 1942. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Grey cloth with green titles to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some light foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and edge worn and torn with slight loss at top and tail of spine.

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TOOTLEOO TWO
Written by Bernard Darwin. Illustrated by Elinor Darwin.
Stock no. 1318334
Published by The Nonesuch Press. 1st 1927. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Paper covered stiff cardwraps.. Full-page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, 0.5" loss to base of spine. Some marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Some foxing and fingering to page margins. Front pastedown is a bit grubby and there is evidence of erased pencil scribble to front free-endpaper.

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PLAYETTE PHONE BOOK
Written by Larry Wise; M. Goldsmith. Illustrated by Dick Briefer.
Stock no. 1318330
Published by Playette Corp.. Circa 1945. Good condition.

Spiral bound pictorial boards. Front board has a picture of a telephone with centre piece cut out and handset which can be lifted from the cradle. All pages have a circle cut out where dial of telephone (situated on inside rear cover) fits through. The phone dial makes a clicking noise when turned. Corners bumped, covers edge worn. Numbers showing through dial are a little worn. Receiver is worn where it 'rests' on front of book. Contents clean. Unfortunately the phone dial no longer makes the clicking noise.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1966
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1318328
Published by Daily Express. 1966. Very good condition.

Dark blue laminated boards. Front cover shows Rupert and chums in a flying saucer. First story - Rupert and the Magic Ball. Includes Magic Paintings. Spine and corners bumped. NO names, price-cut. Dot-to-dot on page 32/33 done. Magic Paintings done with some transfer of paint onto pages 62 and 71.

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SEVEN O'CLOCK TALES
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler.
Stock no. 1318327
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Thirty short stories for children. Yellow cloth, red titles. B/w illustrations. 185 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Child's name in red crayon to front free-endpaper. A few foxspots to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with loss to top and tail of spine and large section of loss to centre of rear panel.

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