THE TOPPER BOOK 1971
No author listed.
Stock no. 1809467
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1971. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. Laminate cracking to spine. Corners lightly worn. Boards slightly grubby. NOT price-cut. Name in belongs to box. Contents clean.

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A NON STOP RUN
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1313490
Published by Birn Brothers. 1st 1929. Good condition.

Stories and rhymes of our railways by Blyton. Pictorial boards. B/w and red, black and white text illustrations. Binding is a little fragile in that the joints are cracked and staples have been pulled making contents a bit loose. There is chipping to the title-strip with some loss. Contents are browned but generally clean. A decent copy of a very scarce item.

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AUNT JUDY'S MAY-DAY VOLUME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Written by Aunt Judy; Mrs. Gatty. Illustrated by F. Gilbert; A.W. Cooper; R. Newcombe.
Stock no. 1503072
Published by Bell and Daldy. 1869. Almost very good condition.

For young people edited by Mrs Gatty. Red three quarter leather binding with marbled boards and text block. Raised bands to spine with gilt lines and titles. Black title block. Contains November 1868 to April 1869. B/w illustrations. 380 pages. Spine worn with chip from top and bottom edge. Bumping to corners. Wear to corners, cover edges and some of leather. Slight loss from edge of marbling on front cover. Slight scuffing to marbling. Marks to pastedowns, appear to correspond with leather. Pencil writing about contents to title page. A few marks/fingermarks to prelims, contents generally clean.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1938 - THE NEW RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1313469
Published by Daily Express. 1938. Good condition.

The third Rupert annual. 1st story Rupert and the Daffodils. Colour pictorial boards. Red cloth spine. 126 pages. 10x7.5". Covers are edge worn, spine and corners bumped. Front joint is almost broken. Name and address in ink in belongs to box. Margin tear to base of title-page. Some page corner tips creased. Hinges cracked, some very weak, because of cracked joints/hinges front cover doesn't sit as is should. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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PUSS IN BOOTS
Written by Charles Perrault. Illustrated by Gunars Krollis.
Stock no. 1503061
Published by Liesma Publishers. Slightly better than good condition.

Translated from French by Michelle MacGrath. Also contains story called The Fairy. Large format 11.75 x 9". Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Creasing and bubbles to laminate on covers. Lower corners creased. Spine bumped and faded. Two small numbers stamped on verso of last text page. Contents generally clean but have slight musty smell.

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STRAVAGANZA CITY OF MASKS
Written by Mary Hoffman. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Stock no. 1711991
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 2002. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A compelling, poweful novel about the parrallel world of Talia. Colour decorated boards. Map of Talia to front endpaper, b/w chapter headers. ISBN: 0747555338. SIGNED by author. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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PURE DEAD WICKED
Written by Debi Gliori. Illustrated by Debi Gliori.
Stock no. 1711981
Published by Doubleday. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition.

Red suede (imitation?) covers with silver titles and vignette. B/w chapter headers. 252 pages. ISBN: 038560159X.

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THE JANET AND JOHN MANUAL
Written by Rona Munro.
Stock no. 1402802
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1954. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A teachers' manual for use with The Janet and John reading course. Cream boards with olive green titles to spine and front board. Colour photos frontis plus 15 pages of b/w photos. 141 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing and a few marks to boards. Remains of label stuck to front pastedown. College library stamp to one page. Foxing mainly to endpapers and page edges. Small piece of label with '25' written to it to top of front endpaper. Pictorial endpaper is edge torn and creased with small areas of loss and some surface paper damage. Small library label to bottom of spine. Foxing and marks (possibly damp). Wrapper is grubby. Small white label stuck to spine on verso.

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PETER PAN & WENDY
Written by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1402798
Published by Pavilion Books. 5th 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, silver titles to spine. Wonderful colour illustrations, most full-page. 157 pages. ISBN: 185145179X. Spine and corners a little bumped. Small mark to top of rear board. Contents clean. Wrapper is a little edge worn. Spine a little faded.

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LIGHTSLEEP
Written by Matthew S. Batham.
Stock no. 1313451
Published by Matthew S. Batham. 1st 2006. Very good condition.

A magical adventure set in a mysterious world of witches and warlocks. Pictorial cardwraps. 167 pages. ISBN: 1904623395. SIGNED by the author to half title-page and to a promotional card tucked inside the book. Spine faded (although it may meant to be like this!?). Lower edge of first 30 pages have a crease at the inner margin (book possibly dropped at some point?).

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SEVEN WHITE GATES
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Bertram Prance.
Stock no. 1711828
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1st 1944. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Lone Pine Story. Red cloth, black titles. Full-page b/w illustrations plus b/w maps to the endpapers. 200 pages. Small splash mark to front cover. Spine faded at top and tail. Wrapper is torn and creased with some loss, approx. 1/2" to top and tail of spine and similar across top of rear panel, plus some loss at corners.

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OFF TO FAIRYLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 1711823
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Circa 1899. Good condition.

And all the way back. Cloth spine. Pictorial front board. Nister no. 438. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Corners bumped and worn. Rear cover grubby. Front joint cracked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Pages browned.

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