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MR. MUNCHAUSEN
Written by John Kendrick Bangs. Illustrated by Peter Newell.
Stock no. 440126
Published by Noyes, Platt & Company. 1st USA 1901. Very good condition.

Being a true account of some of the recent adventures beyond the Styx of the late hieronymus Carl Friedrich... Light brown cloth with black titles and colour decoration. 15 colour plates. 180 pages + 8 pages of adverts to rear. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Bookplate to front pastedown. Browning to outer page edges.

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MORE ABOUT MANDY
Written by Lorna Hill. Illustrated by Ann Kent Robinson.
Stock no. 439879
Published by Evans Brothers Limited. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. Blue/white endpapers are maps. B/w illustrations. A second story about the King family. Damp mark to base of rear cover, which is also to corresponding parts of wrapper. Contents are excellent. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut, with damp marking and a couple of pencil words to front panel.

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WITH MOORE AT CORUNNA
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Wal Paget.
Stock no. 381320
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1898. Almost very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. 12 b/w plates. 384 pages + 32 page booklist. All edges green. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers lightly rubbed. Tiny nick to front edge of spine. Small address sticker and ink stamp to front pastedown. Front joint cracked. Rear endpapers replaced. Light foxing throughout.

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BERTIE AND THE BIG RED BALL
Written by Edward Lucie-Smith. Illustrated by Beryl Cook.
Stock no. 381285
Published by John Murray; Gallery Five. 1st 1982. Slightly better than very good condition.

When Ruby takes Bertie for a quiet walk on the seafront little does she know what lies in store... Pictorial boards. Bright colour pictures throughout. ISBN: 0719539765. Very slight wear to top of spine. Contents clean. A nice copy of a scarce book.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1994
Written by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 381231
Published by Daily Express. 1994. Very good condition.

No. 59. Tall format, glazed pictorial boards showing Rupert being carried shoulder-high on the beach by Uncle Boris. ISBN: 1874507368. Very slight bumping to spine and corners. Colouring page messily attempted with some transfer of colours to facing pages. No names, NOT price-cut.

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TOM MERRY'S WEEKLY
Written by Frank Richards; Martin Clifford.
Stock no. 810643
Published by Howard Baker. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Facsimile of Gem Volume No. 18. Large format. Green boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 070300252X. Light page-edge browning. Two corners bumped.

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A CENTURY OF GIRLS' STORIES
Written by Ethel Boileau.
Stock no. 628577
Published by Hutchinson & Co.. Very good condition.

Edited by Boileau. Lilac cloth, black titles and vignette. Endpapers lightly browned. Rear board a little marked.

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THE BASKET OF FLOWERS
Written by Christoph Von Schmid.
Stock no. 810469
Published by W. Nicholson & Sons. Circa 1880. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. Black decorative borders and bevelled edges. Also includes Jennie White, The Black Velvet Pelisse, Speak The Truth, Capital Fun. 255 pages plus 17 page booklist. Contents very good indeed. Spine browned, slightly chipped at top and tail. Cover edges marked.

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SOME MILESTONES IN AVIATION
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 810251
Published by John Hamilton. 1st 1935. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, black title to spine. No catalogue to rear. 32 numbered illustrations/photos. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Some foxing to outer page edges and a few pages internally. All photo plates/illustrations are present.

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THE KEEPERS OF THE NARROW SEAS
Written by Percy F. Westerman.
Stock no. 810256
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Almost very good condition.

A Story of the Great War. Originally published in 1918 with the title 'The Fritz Strafers'. Red pictorial binding. Colour frontis only. 380 pages. Fading to spine and a few damp fade marks to top and bottom of front cover. Corners are bumped, with some wear and a little fraying of cloth. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Reduced from £120.

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EXCELSIOR
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by Alice Price; F. Corbyn Price.
Stock no. 381158
Published by Meissner & Buch. Almost very good condition.

A poem. Grey cloth spine, pictorial front board. 7 full page chromolithograph illustrations, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers grubby. Endpapers browned. Some page browning and foxing (particularly to inner margins) else contents clean.

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THE VOLUNTEERS
No author listed.
Stock no. 381168
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1905. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial boards, front shows children in imaginary march. Red cloth spine. Colour frontis, many b/w illustrations. First short story is "A Four-Footed Hero". Some light wear to covers. Prize plate to front pastedown has been partially removed. Foxing and fingering throughout. There is one small closed tear to margin of frontis.

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