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THE DALE READERS - SECOND PRIMER
Written by Nellie Dale. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1326492
Published by George Philip & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

New Edition, entirely reset in large type. Yellow pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Easy to read text. Unpaginated. 7.5 x 5". Spine and corners a little rubbed. Covers grubby. Contents generally clean.

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BIGGLES & CO.
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1326488
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1952. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green boards, black title to spine. 6 b/w illustrations. 248 pages. Spine bumped. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing to textblock. Flying Jacket wrapper is very worn, torn and edge chipped with some loss, spine and rear panel are grubby and there is a small circular (drink?) mark to front panel.

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BIGGLES SECRET AGENT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1326486
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1949. Good condition.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 6 b/w illustrations. 255 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine and cover edges browned. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. Pencil writing and scribbles erased from title-page (still evident).

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BIGGLES & CO.
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1326481
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1949. Good condition.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 6 b/w illustrations. 256 Pages. Spine and corners bumped, spine faded. A few small marks to covers. Small split to base of spine. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing throughout, heavy to textblock.

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MOTS D'HEURES: GOUSSES, RAMES
Written by Luis D'Antin Van Rooten.
Stock no. 1827119
Published by Angus & Robertson. 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The d'Antin Manuscript. The rhymes of your childhood in the accents of Moliere and De Gaulle! Edited and annotated by Luis d'Antin van Rooten. ISBN: 0207949913. Text block lightly browned else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and scuffed to rear panel.

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THE FOURTH WAS FUN FOR PHILIPPA
Written by Nancy Breary. Illustrated by Drake Brookshaw.
Stock no. 1326480
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1961. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w text illustrations. 206 pages. Spine bumped. Faint discolouration and foxing to covers. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Dustwrapper is foxed, grubby to rear panel and slightly edge worn, there is a small biro scribble to the front panel (not too obvious).

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NUT CRACKER
Written by David Walser. Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.
Stock no. 1326479
Published by Puffin; The Penguin Group. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

Paper engineering by Iain Smyth. Pictorial boards with heart-shaped cut out to cover. 5 elaborate glitter illustrations - one at rear is 3-D. ISBN: 9780141384542. A few small, light scratches to cover edges. One tiny foxspot to the 3d image else contents are fine.

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THE BOOK OF TOYTOWN AND LARRY THE LAMB
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by S.G. Hulme Beaman.
Stock no. 1326477
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. Illustrated in b/w & colour, colour plates are from the TV series. 7 of the original stories plus a biographical note by Hendrik Baker. ISBN: 0245534571. Spine bumped. Foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is foxed to flaps, faded to spine and front panel, edge creased with tears (repaired on verso).

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HOW THE JUST SO STORIES WERE MADE
Written by Rudyard Kipling; John Batchelor. Illustrated by Rudyard Kipling.
Stock no. 1326476
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2021. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The brilliance and tragedy behind Kipling's celebrated tales for little children. Blue boards, silver title to spine. 224 pages. B/w illustrations and photos. ISBN: 9780300237184. Minimal bumping to spine. Wrapper is very slightly rubbed at edges and has a light vertical crease to front flap.

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PINOCCHIO
Written by Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark.
Stock no. 1326475
Published by Harper Collins Childrens Books. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Gold coloured cloth with red title to spine. 265 numbered pages. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780007339693. Minimal bumping to spine. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is sunned to spine.

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FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Written by J.K. Rowling. Illustrated by Jonny Duddle; Tomislav Tomic.
Stock no. 1326474
Published by Bloomsbury; Obscurus Books. Circa 2017. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 94 numbered pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781408880715. 2nd printing. Spine slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.

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THE TARTAN PIMPERNEL
Written by Donald Caskie.
Stock no. 1326473
Published by Collins. 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Abridged for young readers. Red boards, silver title to spine. 192 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed with a couple of small tears at corners and a tiny patch of surface paper damage to top corner of front panel (a small label has been removed).

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