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THE RACK ROUND THE WORLD
Written by Captain Charles Gilson. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo.
Stock no. 1324335
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. 1st 1914. Good condition.

Being the account of the contest for the £100,000 prize offered by the Combined Newspaper League, of the Invention of Methylite, and certain passages in the life of Mr. Wang. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 6 colour plates. 1 b/w fold-out map. 283 pages plus 16 page catalogue to rear. All edges blue. Spine and corners bumped, scuffing to covers. Foxing to contents and some light fingermarks to margins. Vertical crease to frontis plate.

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JUST SO STORIES
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Rudyard Kipling.
Stock no. 1324332
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1902. Very good condition.

Red and black and white pictorial cloth with white titles. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Title to spine and border edges rubbed off. Name in pencil to front fly-leaf. Foxing to endpapers, crease to corner of rear free-endpaper. Textblock is slightly grubby. Contents generally clean.

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STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1324330
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Boots the Chemists. Circa 1936. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover. 20 beautiful tipped-in colour plates. 319 pages. Published by Hodder for Boots The Chemist. Spine bumped, corners slightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some light foxing to contents. Plates all present and in fine condition. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby and edge rubbed, minimal loss at corners and a few tape repairs on verso.

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GOLDEN SUNBEAMS 1899-1900
Written by Mary E. Lester; Maud Carew; Edith Farmiloe; et al. Illustrated by Charles Robinson; T.H. Robinson; W. Heath Robinson; Edith Farmiloe; et al..
Stock no. 1324329
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1900. Almost very good condition.

Includes 2 years from January 1899 to December 1900. Yellow cloth with gilt borders and gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Spine professionally rebacked. New endpapers. Cloth a bit grubby. Page edge browning else contents clean.

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BLOWN AWAY FROM THE LAND
Written by David Ker. Illustrated by Paul Hardy.
Stock no. 1324325
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1930. Very good condition.

An adventure in the Mediterranean. Green pictorial cloth, black title to spine. Colour frontis. 2 b/w plates. 175 pages, 2 page booklist to rear. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Name plate to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock.

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TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A ROMAN BOY
Written by Rev. A.J. Church.
Stock no. 1324323
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. Circa 1904. Very good condition.

New Edition. Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 6 b/w plates. 384 pages plus 32 page catalogue to rear. Spine slightly bumped and faded. Tiny splash mark to rear cover. Prize plate to front pastedown and name plate to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock.

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THE BUILDING OF LONDON
Written by Margaret Potter; Alexander Potter. Illustrated by Margaret Potter; Alexander Potter.
Stock no. 1324319
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1946. Almost very good condition.

Colour pictorial paperwraps. Colour lithographs and b/w drawings. Puffin Picture Book No. 42. Name in ink to top margin of front cover. Small ink stain affects edge of front cover and also most pages. Staples rusty.

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FAMOUS SHIPS
Written by Frank C. Bowen. Illustrated by Frank Mason.
Stock no. 1324318
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 39. Pictorial paperwraps. B/w and colour lithographs throughout. Unpaginated. Foxing to covers. Covers slightly edge worn. Staples rusty. Pencil tick marks and other annotations to title list inside front cover.

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ABOUT A MOTOR CAR
Written by Phyllis Ladyman. Illustrated by Phyllis Ladyman.
Stock no. 1324317
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1948. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book no. 38. Paperwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. A few light marks to covers.

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A HISTORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
Written by Margaret Potter; Alexander Potter. Illustrated by Margaret Potter; Alexander Potter.
Stock no. 1324316
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1946. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial paperwraps with brown border and red title to front. Colour lithographs and b/w drawings. Puffin Picture Book No. 37. Slight rubbing to cover edges and slight fading to spine. Some page corners slightly creased. Contents clean.

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BRER RABBIT
Written by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by Walter Trier.
Stock no. 1324313
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1945. Fair condition.

Puffin Picture Book no. 34. Oblong format. Pictorial paper wraps. Colour lithographed illustrations. Printed by Delittle, Fenwick & Co. Front cover has large pieces of loss to edges. Covers are slightly grubby and foxed. Foxing and fingering to contents but generally clean.

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COUNTRY HOLIDAY
Written by Margaret Scott-Brown. Illustrated by Leo Dowd.
Stock no. 1324312
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1944. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No.33. Colour pictorial paperwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. Slight browning to pages else contents clean.

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