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THE ENCHANTED DOLL
Written by Mark Lemon. Illustrated by May Gladwin.
Stock no. 1312269
Published by David Nutt. 1907. Almost very good condition.

A Fairy Tale for Little People. White stiff card wraps with yellow to front cover. 38 pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Spine covered with clear tape, clear tape also used to reinforce the joints inside. Some hinges cracked/pulled causing contents to be a little loose but still tightly bound.

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THE MYSTERY OF CABBAGE-PATCH HOUSE
Written by Ernest A. Aris. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 1312267
Published by Partridge. Good condition.

Small format, 6 x 5". Brown boards with large onlay to front cover. 4 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine worn and chipped. Corners bumped and rubbed. Some fading to edges of rear cover. Small booksellers label to front pastedown. Foxing to contents. "The butterfly" written in child's hand underneath text illustration on last text page. Margin tear to inside margin of frontis. Child's name written in biro a couple of times to title-page (with some doodles as well).

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YOUNG JOHNNIE BIMBO
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1312262
Published by John Murray. 1st 1956. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Michael and Mary Story. Mike and Mary and their friend Vicky are spending a holiday on the Grand Union Canal. Pale blue boards, red titles. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. A few tiny foxspots and a couple of small, light marks to textblock else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge chipped with some loss, section of loss to top of spine and creases at wrapper edges.

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POLONIUS PENGUIN AND THE FLYING DOCTOR
Written by Anthony Abrahams. Illustrated by Hilary Abrahams.
Stock no. 1312261
Published by Dobson Books Ltd.. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Polonius Penguin and his friend Petronella Puffin were bored... Large format. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine bumped, corners rubbed. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and last couple of pages, a few very faint fingermarks else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with white sticky labels on verso as reinforcements. Verso of wrapper is lightly foxed.

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THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1312249
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Dark blue boards. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 84 numbered pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine slightly darkened. Some purple paint(?) marks and a biro scribble to front cover. Child's pencil writing to front pastedown and address in ink to endpaper. Child's drawings and writing to four of the blank pages. Grubby fingermarks to contents. This is the third printing of the first edition.

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THE FIRE ANIMAL
Written by Gerda Rottschalk; Elvira Bonfield. Illustrated by Gerhard Preuss.
Stock no. 1312221
Published by Richard Sadler Ltd.. 1st UK 1973. Very good condition.

Set in China some 400,000 years go, vividly portraying primitive man's daily life and habits. White glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Translated from the German by Bonfield. ISBN: 0085410096. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents clean.

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TEDDY TAIL'S BOOK OF CHILDREN'S SONGS
Written by T.J. Hewitt. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1312188
Published by Ken Publications. Almost very good condition.

Large format, red card wraps. Popular nursery rhymes set to music. Illustrated throughout with two-colour illustrations surrounding music/text. Covers slightly grubby and edge rubbed. Page corner tips lightly creased throughout.

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THE SILVER CANON
Written by George Manville Fenn. Illustrated by M.L.P..
Stock no. 2113605
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1936. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Tale of the Western Plains. Blue cloth with black titles and decorations. B/w frontis. Bumping to spine. Some light browning to a few cover edges. Presentation plate to front endpaper. A few grubby margin marks; some foxing. Wrapper is creased, with some edge-tears and chips; scuffing in places; only a little loss.

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THE HAUNTED RANCH
Written by May Wynne. Illustrated by John Harris.
Stock no. 2113598
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Circa 1936. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Orange cloth, black titles and border. Colour frontis. Dean's Reward Series. 247 pages. Heavy dent to top edge of front cover and some corresponding pages. Small split to top of spine. Corners are bumped. Browning to cover edges. Some foxing. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with piece of loss to rear cover; some to corners.

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THE MOUSE, THE PENCIL AND THE PAINTED COCKEREL
No author listed.
Stock no. 1312121
Published by Bancroft & Co.(Publishers) Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Westminster Books. Oblong format. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations. Covers are a bit edge worn and chipped with small patch of surface paper damage to front cover. Slight crease to page edges and light page browning else contents clean.

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VANDRAD THE VIKING
Written by J. Storer Clouston.
Stock no. 1312118
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. circa 1914. Good condition.

Green decorated cloth with gilt title to spine. 4 colour plates. 224 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Foxing to prelims. Prize plate to front pastedown. Ink name stamp used multiple times to front endpapers and a sticker has been removed from free-endpaper.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1978
No author listed. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 2113541
Published by Daily Express. 1978. Almost very good condition.

Laminated pictorial boards. Front cover shows Rupert on the back of a sledge, waving. First story is Rupert and the Rivals. The first Rupert annual to be drawn by John Harrold. 115 pages. 10x7 inches. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Chipping to a couple of corners. A few marks to covers. Name in ink in belongs to box. NOT price-cut. Ink scribble to a few pages to rear.

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