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HOLIDAY HOUSE: A SERIES OF TALES
Written by Catherine Sinclair.
Stock no. 1821066
Published by William Whyte. 1849. Almost very good condition.

Three-quarters blue calf leather binding, red title block with gilt title to spine. Marbled paper boards. Marbled text block. Hand-coloured frontis. xii + 346 pages. Spine is faded, scuffed and worn, small splits to sides of top & tail, slight loss to tail. Edges rubbed & worn. Boards scuffed. Joints cracked but binding tight. Foxing to prelims and last couple of pages. A few margin marks to contents.

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EPAMINONDAS HELPS IN THE HOUSE
Written by Constance Egan. Illustrated by A.E. Kennedy.
Stock no. 1320094
Published by Collins. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Epaminondas the lovable piccaninny "helps" in the house, and again brings disaster upon himself. Purple boards with white titles and colour onlay to front cover. Colour illustrations. Small format 6.25 x 4.75". 62 pages. Slight wear to cover edges. Endpapers lightly browned, foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and just a little grubby.

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NODDY'S SHOP OF BOOKS
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1320090
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1958. Almost very good condition.

Five little card wrap books contained in box shaped to look like a sweetshop with opening door at front. The books are generally very good with some foxing and light page browning. The front cover of book 1 has indentations to front cover (from heavy pencil marks?) and a small stain to top edge of rear cover. The box is worn, grubby and foxed on the inside with a tape reinforcement to the shop of the shaped section of the shop (on the verso).

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BOOKANO STORIES NO. 4
Written by S. Louis Giraud.
Stock no. 1320088
Published by Strand Publications. Very good condition.

With Pictures that Spring Up in Model Form. 5 pop-ups; first one is "Pipes Of Pan". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed, light vertical crease to centre of spine. Slight page browning to contents. Pop-ups in excellent working order.

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LES AVENTURES D'UNE SOURIS VERTE
Written by Benjamin Rabier. Illustrated by Benjamin Rabier.
Stock no. 1320065
Published by Garnier Freres. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth spine, yellow pictorial boards. Colour and two-tone illustrations throughout. 32 pages. Text in French. Spine is slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents are browned.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND STORY BOOK
Written by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel; Helen Haywood.
Stock no. 1320063
Published by Shaw's Children'S Books. Good condition.

Large, tall format (13 x 8.25"). Yellow pictorial cardwraps (cover illustration by Helen Haywood). 16 pages. Colour text illustrations. Covers are lightly creased and foxed. Staples rusty. Some light foxing and fingering to contents.

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BUSY LITTLE FOLK
No author listed. Illustrated by Ruth Cobb; Ethel K. Burgess; Harold Earnshaw; N. Buchanan; Honor C. Appleton; et al..
Stock no. 1320060
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps, front shows two children gardening, Blackie's picture Books advert to rear. 8.5 x 6". Full page colour illustration to insides of covers. Stories and rhymes with b/w illustrations. Rear cover is a little grubby. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Split to lower 2" of spine. Some slight fingering to page margins.

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ENID BLYTON'S FAIRY FOLK STORY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1320051
Published by Collins. 1st thus 1966. Very good condition.

Yellow paper spine, pictorial cardwraps (illustrated by Rene Cloke). B/w illustrations to text throughout. 80 pages. Slight wear to spine and corners. Some foxing to covers and contents and page browning throughout.

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EUSTACIA GOES TO THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1320044
Published by Dymock's Book Arcade Ltd.. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Australian edition. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 278 pages. Boards worn at edges. Lower edge of covers dampstained. Dampstaining to margins of front pages. Pictorial wrapper is worn and torn with sellotape repairs and loss to lower front corner. Front flap of wrapper is detached.

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THE CHALET SCHOOL AND THE LINTONS
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1320041
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1952. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Green boards, black title to spine. 319 pages. Spine slightly bumped and faded. Name and address in ink to front pastedown. Light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Blue spine wrapper is in two pieces (torn at front spine edge), is edge torn with loss, 1.5" loss across top edge of front panel and top of spine. Some small blue ink marks to title list on rear panel.

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THE EXPLOITS OF THE CHALET GIRLS
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 1320036
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1937. Good condition.

A chunky volume. Red cloth, black title to spine. B/w frontis. 302 pages. Spine is faded, with foxing. Covers are marked. Foxing throughout. A reading copy.

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THE BOOK OF MOVING PICTURES
No author listed. Illustrated by Demi.
Stock no. 1319983
Published by Hutchinson Junior Books Ltd. 1st 1979. Very good condition.

12 wheels to spin and see a world in motion. Press out the wheels and attach them to the mirror foil on rear to see the amazing moving pictures. Square format. Stiff card covers. ISBN: 0091388406. Spine and spine edges along covers are faded. Contents fine and unused.

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