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THE SWEDISH FOSTER-BROTHERS
Written by Sarah S. Baker.
Stock no. 1325262
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Circa 1899. Very good condition.

Blue decorated cloth with gilt title to spine. 127 pages. B/w frontis and title-page. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Name plate to front pastedown, prize plate to verso of front free-endpaper. Endpapers browned. Contents clean.

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EVA AND HER PLAYFELLOWS A BOOK OF ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE YOUNG
Written by C.M. Smith.
Stock no. 1325259
Published by Dean & Son. Circa 1862. Good condition.

Blue embossed cloth with gilt decoration. Cream endpapers. 4 hand-coloured plates (including the title-page). 255 pages. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped, wear to top of spine. Covers scuffed. Glue marks to joints. Some hinges pulled.

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PHOEBE'S FORTUNES
Written by Mrs Robert O'Reilly.
Stock no. 1325258
Published by Strahan & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1890. Good condition.

Blue decorated cloth with gilt title labels. B/w engravings. 343 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth slightly grubby/scuffed. Prize plate to front pastedown. One gather of pages is almost detached (the staples have rusted). Some foxing to contents.

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NIGHTLIGHT TATTOO
Written by M.T. Candler. Illustrated by John Benison.
Stock no. 1325256
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth covers with red title to spine and vignette of toy soldier to front. B/w text illustrations. 197 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, slight fading to lower cover edges. Foxing to textblock. A couple of pages have slightly ragged edges where they have been opened after the binding process. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, slightly grubby and edge rubbed.

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HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
Written by J.K. Rowling.
Stock no. 1825569
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 2003. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Fifth in the Harry Potter series. Pictorial boards. 766 pages. ISBN: 0747551006. Light vertical crease to spine. Tiny nick to lower front board joint. Lower board and spine lightly bumped. Page edge browning else cotnents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and slightly edge-creased.

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THE TRAGEDY OF MR. PUNCH
Written by Russell Thorndike; Reginald Arkell. Illustrated by Arthur Watts.
Stock no. 1825542
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1st 1923. Almost very good condition.

A Fantastic Play in Prologue and One Act. The classic tale of Punch and Judy. Introductory essay by Max Beerbohm. 9 tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown paper. Large format. Beige cloth spine, grey marble effect boards. 61 pages. Board edges rubbed. Three flower stickers/decoupage to lower half of front pastedown. Text block and endpapers browned. Small burn mark to top margin of page 13-17 with minor loss. One or two closed tears to page edges (no loss), a few grubby marks to contents. All plates present, some have a lower corner crease.

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THE DULCIMER BOY
Written by Tor Seidler. Illustrated by David Hockney.
Stock no. 1825535
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st UK 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A story for children set in New England at the turn of the century. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0224019333. Slight fading to boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned to spine and a little scuffed.

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THE CHILDREN'S TOUR; OR, EVERYDAY SIGHTS IN SUNNY LAND
Written by M.A. Paull.
Stock no. 1325250
Published by T. Nelson & Sons. 1893. Very good condition.

Dark yellow pictorial cloth, gilt title to front cover and gilt vignette to spine. Pale green floral endpapers. 12 b/w plates. 294 pages, all edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped. Prize plate to front pastedown, name plate to free-endpaper. Endpapers partly browned. Some light fingering else contents clean.

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ROUTLEDGE'S EVERY BOY'S ANNUAL
Written by Edmund Routledge.
Stock no. 1325249
Published by Routledge, Warne, And Routledge. 1865. Good condition.

Embossed red cloth with gilt vignette to front and gilt title to spine. Turquoise endpapers. Colour frontis and title-page with tissue-guard by Walter Crane. B/w plates. 760 pages, all edges gilt. Spine and corners are bumped and worn with splits to spine edges. Covers slightly grubby. Joints are cracked (and re-glued). Name plate to front pastedown and name sticker to verso of frontis covering a name in ink (small ink name stamp below the sticker too). Musty smell to contents. Joint between frontis and title-page is cracked. Some hinges cracked and pulled. Grubby fingermarks to contents.

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THE TESTING OF JIM MACLEAN
Written by Dillon Wallace.
Stock no. 1325247
Published by The Boy's Own Paper. Very good condition.

A Tale of the Wilds of Labrador. Pale blue pictorial cloth. 6 b/w plates. 272 pages. Spine bumped. A few small marks to covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Some foxspots.

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DIMSIE MOVES UP
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Wal Paget.
Stock no. 1325246
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1st 1921. Good condition.

Pictorial cloth covers. Gilt titles. 4 colour plates. 254 pages. 7.5 x 5". Spine and corners bumped, split to top of spine. Covers slightly grubby. Prize plate to front pastedown. Foxing to contents. One plate is part detached.

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THE SECRET OF THE FENS
Written by K. Wallis Coales. Illustrated by K.W. Coales.
Stock no. 1325242
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1935. Very good condition.

Pictorial boards. Colour frontis. 96 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Foxing.

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