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THE LITTLE HORSE BUS
Written by Graham Greene. Illustrated by Dorothy Craigie.
Stock no. 1324393
Published by Max Parrish. 1st 1952. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations. Some light staining to front cover edges. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed with a small tear to lower corner of front panel, foxing on verso and some light marking to rear panel.

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THE ADVENTURES OF WONK - FIREWORKS
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 1324391
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1942. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 417. Green boards with colour vignette and titles. Also contains: THE DIAMOND RING AFFAIR. Spine slightly bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light fingering else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and torn at top rear corner.

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THE ADVENTURES OF WONK - STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 1324390
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1942. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 417. Grey boards with pale brown vignette and titles. Also contains: ADVENTURE IN THE NIGHT. Spine and corners bumped. Some slight browning to spine and cover edges. Some light fingermarks to page margins else contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn and torn with loss and a bit grubby.

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CALICO THE WONDER HORSE OR THE SAGA OF STEWY SLINKER
Written by Virginia Lee Burton. Illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton.
Stock no. 1324387
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1942. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Red pictorial cardwrap. B/w illustrations throughout in strip format. 5 x 8". Covers edge worn and foxed. A few pin holes to front cover affecting preliminary pages. Some pale page browning else contents clean.

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THE MYSTERIOUS TALE OF GENTLE JACK AND LORD BUMBLEBEE
Written by George Sand; Gela Jacobson. Illustrated by Gennady Spirin.
Stock no. 1324378
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

Told in English for the first time. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 74 pages. ISBN: 0416085326. Contents are fine. Spine and corners are bumped and slightly worn.

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FAVOURITES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1324372
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. Fine condition.

A rag book. Small format 5 x 4". Pictorial covers, chick to front, goat kid to rear. 2 cloth leaves plus inside of covers gives 6 pictures of animals, no text. Rag book is bright and clean. Tissue-paper pocket is old and slightly browned/fragile.

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BIGGLES FLIES WEST
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1324366
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1949. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Red boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 255 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and torn with loss at base of spine and corners, tape repairs on verso.

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I ONLY HAVE TO CLOSE MY EYES
Written by Kenneth Williams. Illustrated by Beverlie Manson.
Stock no. 1324349
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1986. Very good condition.

Accompanied by his cat, a small boy dreams up wonderful worlds in which he plays many roles - among them the king of the castle, an explorer in a jungle and the ringmaster of a circus. Glazed pictorial boards. Blue endpapers. Large colour illustrations with smaller b/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0460061755. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Barcode label stuck to rear cover.

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TOYTOWN... THE WORLD OF S.G. HULME BEAMAN
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman; G.G. Grange. Illustrated by S.G. Hulme Beaman.
Stock no. 1324346
Published by Gerard Gaston Grange. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A compilation of the stories of all S.G. Hulme Beaman's popular Toytown plays which were broadcast exclusively on its former Home Service programme "Children's Hour" by BBC Radio in years now long gone. Large, heavy format. Red cloth, gilt titles. 512 numbered pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0953944107. Spine bumped. Front joint cracked. Contents otherwise fine. Dustwrapper is edge worn/creased and faded to spine.

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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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