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NODDY AND TRICKY TEDDY
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 385075
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1957. Good condition.

A Noddy Strip Book. Small oblong format (8 x 17.5 cm). Tricky Teddy plays a naughty trick on Little Noddy. Colour illustrations with text below. Covers rubbed and a little grubby. Sellotape inside covers keeping contents attached. Light foxing to contents throughout and some browning.

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TURN AGAIN LANE
Written by Gwendolen Mary Evans. Illustrated by Gwendolen Mary Evans.
Stock no. 448920
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Stories and verse. Contents very good indeed. Corners worn. Boards marked.

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CHILDREN'S SINGING GAMES
Written by Alice B. Gomme. Illustrated by Winifred Smith.
Stock no. 405613
Published by David Nutt. 1st 1894. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Grey cloth, black illustrations and titles. Contains music, words and decorations to many popular rhymes. 70 pages. Covers a little grubby. Some light fingering and foxing to contents.

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THE WATER BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley; B. Laurie. Illustrated by Arthur Gatlish.
Stock no. 405636
Published by T. Werner Laurie Ltd.. 1st thus 1932. Very good condition.

A Fairy Tale For A Land-Baby. Abridged by Laurie. Blue pictorial cloth. 8 colour plates. 224 pages. Book: 1 plate is MISSING. Front joint is cracked leading to first gathering being a little loose. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Small burn mark to edge of front and rear cover, affecting some of the textblock edge. Corners bumped. Foxing mainly to page edges.

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FROGS
Written by Gerald Donaldson. Illustrated by Various.
Stock no. 448814
Published by Windward. 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A charming and amusing collection of tales including the powers and perculier habits of frogs! Cream boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 127 pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. ISBN: 0711200378. Top and tail of spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Wrapper slightly unevenly faded with rubbed corners.

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OUR PETS
No author listed.
Stock no. 448837
Published by The Alexandra Publishing Co.. Circa 1900. Good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Full page colour illustrations plus two-tone pictures. 8 pages. Untearable book. Spine a little torn. Corners rubbed. Pages slightly crinkled. A nice example of an early untearable book.

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THE YELLOW COACH
Written by Elisabeth Kyle. Illustrated by Alexy Pendle.
Stock no. 448841
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1976. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Yellow pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. A Long-Ago Children book. A children's story set in historical France. ISBN: 0434949183. Wrapper slightly edge-torn but with little loss.

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OLD KING COLE A POP-UP KIT
No author listed. Illustrated by Rowan Barnes-Murphy.
Stock no. 822104
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition.

Contents loose inside a green pictorial cardwrap cover. Contents include instructions to make your pop-up and the pieces to do so. ISBN: 0722656084. Covers lightly edge-creased with a tiny closed tear to one edge. Contents complete and unused.

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NEW LITTLE PRAYERS POP-UP BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Janet Grahame Johnstone; Anne Grahame Johnstone.
Stock no. 631267
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. 3 pop-up scenes. ISBN: 0603020836. Remains of label to front cover. Inscription in ink to last page. Pop-ups a little creased - but still in excellent working order.

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THREE ANIMAL FABLES SELECTED FROM AESOP
Written by Aesop; S.M. Spence. Illustrated by S.M. Spence.
Stock no. 631316
Published by Thorsons. Circa 1943. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Cloth spine. Pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Adapted by Spence. Spine faded. Corners are worn. Inscription in ink to inside front cover. First hinge cracked.

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WILMOT LAMB AND HIS FRIENDS
Written by Peter Thornhill. Illustrated by Peter Thornhill.
Stock no. 822068
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Burgundy cloth spine, blue pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations. Foxing to covers. Some light creasing to contents. Contents nice and bright.

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THE WISE GRASSHOPPER
Written by Constance Barnes.
Stock no. 822073
Published by Art & Educational Publishers Limited. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Whilst missing her spaniel who has disappeared in the garden, Jane is astonished to find fairies in the garden. Through them, she meets the Wise Grasshopper who helps her to learn how fairies and human kindness work together to solve many human problems. Red cloth spine. Blue pictorial paper boards. Full page colour illustrations plus b/w text illustrations. Edges lightly rubbed, covers clean and bright. Front joint starting to pull. Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-worn with a few small chips and closed tears. Overall, an excellent copy.

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