LES AVENTURES DE TINTIN: LE SECRET DE LA LICORNE
Written by Herge. Illustrated by Herge.
Stock no. 1208932
Published by Casterman. Circa 1966. Fair condition.

A Tintin adventure. French text. Large format. Green spine, cream pictorial boards. Corners bumped, cover edges rubbed. Spine worn with 1" loss at top and small splits at base. Covers slightly grubby. Joints cracked. Name and date in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Some light foxing and pale page browning.

LES AVENTURES DE TINTIN: L'ILE NOIRE
Written by Herge. Illustrated by Herge.
Stock no. 1208931
Published by Casterman. Circa 1947. Good condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Text in French. Covers are edge worn, scuffed and slightly marked. Wear to spine with very slight loss at base. Name and address in heavy pencil to verso of front free-endpaper. Doodles in pencil of Tintin characters to rear free-endpaper, tear to inner margin of last page. Fingering to margins and light page browning throughout.

THE CHALET SCHOOL AND BARBARA
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by D. Brook.
Stock no. 1330525
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1954. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards, blue titles to spine. B/w frontis. 208 pages. Spine and corners bumped, tiny dent to top edge of front cover. Top 2" of spine browned. Base of spine and also front cover damp(?) stained (matching stain to dustwrapper). Contents are very browned/foxed but otherwise contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped, large section of loss to top of spine and also to spine corner of rear panel. Slight loss, and a magic tape repair to base of spine. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby on rear panel.

THE NAUGHTIEST GIRL AGAIN
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by W. Lindsay Cable.
Stock no. 1330521
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 2nd 1943. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. More adventures of the naughtiest girl in the school. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Small marginal nick to a few pages (51-55).

THE VOYAGE OF THE ARCTIC TERN
Written by Hugh Montgomery. Illustrated by Nick Poullis.
Stock no. 1330514
Published by Walker Books. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A classic tale of treason, treachery and treasure that sweeps across many centuries and different lands. Mottled green boards with browne spine. Blue pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0744592518. Minimal bumping/rubbing to spine and corners. Some light foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper has the remains of a small price label to rear panel and has a tiny mark to top edge of front panel on verso (not visible to front of wrapper). Wrapper is very slightly edge creased. The wrapper sounds awful but it is still very nice!

CAUTIONARY TALES AND OTHER VERSES
Written by Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated by Posy Simmonds.
Stock no. 1208923
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Nearly fine condition.

Olive green, yellow & red pictorial cloth. Colour & b/w illustrations. Yellow endpapers. 160 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase with some light shelf-scuffing.

PRICKLY PIG
Written by Gillian McClure. Illustrated by Gillian Mcclure.
Stock no. 1830724
Published by Andre Deutsch Limited. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A hedgehog goes in search of a home for his long winter sleep. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. Unpaginated. ISBN: 023396780X. Pictorial dustwrapper is covered with clear laminate and stuck to pastedowns, faded to spine. A few grubby marks to endpapers. Contents clean.

WEATHER WITCH
Written by Joanna Stubbs. Illustrated by Joanna Stubbs.
Stock no. 1830723
Published by Andre Deutsch Limited. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

When Mr Mulally left the city and bought a cottage in the country he would have been happy digging in his garden if it wasn't for the rain. Why wouldn't it stop? One evening the sad Weather Witch, who lived in the well at the bottom of the garden, came to visit him. As they chatted she cheered up and the rain stopped. Mr Mulally realised that if he could keep the Weather Witch happy his life in the country would not be spoiled by the rain... Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0233966595. Pictorial dustwrapper is covered with clear laminate and stuck to the pastedowns, the laminate is lightly browned. Name in ink to front endpaper. Edges of endpapers stained from the adhesive of the laminate. A few minor marks to contents which are otherwise bright.

APT. 3
Written by Ezra Jack Keats. Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
Stock no. 1830722
Published by Hamish Hamilton Childrens Books. 1st UK 1972. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

On a day when rain softens the sounds of the city, Sam hears someone in his building playing the harmonica. Curious, he and his little brother try to find out where the music is coming from... The brief text of this sensitive story is illuminated by the richly expressive pictures of Ezra Jack Keats. Oblong format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0241021456. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, faded to spine and has a few closed tears to edges.

MR. BEAR, POSTMAN
Written by Chizuko Kuratomi. Illustrated by Kozo Kakimoto.
Stock no. 1830719
Published by Macdonald Futura Publishers Ltd.. 1st UK 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

When Mr. Bear taught himself how to ride a bicycle, everyone wondered why he had done it. They soon learned the answer: he had taken on the job of village postman... Square format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0354080784. Top & tail of spine bumped. Lower horizontal edge of boards is crushed towards spine edge. Contents are lovely. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at top & tail of spine, creased to lower rear edge, a little grubby, faded to spine.

MR. BEAR'S SHADOW
Written by Chizuko Kuratomi. Illustrated by Kozo Kakimoto.
Stock no. 1830718
Published by Macdonald Futura Publishers Ltd.. 1st UK 1980. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In the morning when the rabbit children played at jumping on Mr. Bear's shadow, it was very big. When he woke up from his little snooze, it was midday and his shadow had shrunk. Poor Mr. Bear thought that he must have shrunk. Suddenly everything looked very big and he felt very small. Square format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0354081136. Boards lightly rubbed at corners. Contents excellent. Dustwrapper is faded to top and spine, lightly browned with one or two minor marks, corners lightly rubbed.

MR. BEAR, BAKER
Written by Chizuko Kuratomi. Illustrated by Kozo Kakimoto.
Stock no. 1830717
Published by Macdonald Futura Publishers Ltd.. 1st UK 1981. Slightly better than very good condition.

Mr. Bear spends a day baking for the rabbit baker as he ruined some flour by sleeping on it! Large square format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0354081357. Spine and corners lightly shelf-rubbed. Fading to top edge of rear board, creasing to spine. Contents lovely!