CALIBAN'S HOUR
Written by Tad Williams.
Stock no. 438320
Published by Legend Books. 1st 1994. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A stunning return to the magnificent isle of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Red boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0099263610. SIGNED by author on title page. Pictorial wrapper is edge-creased, with some light wear.

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THE FINISHING SCHOOL
Written by Pamela Brown.
Stock no. 438220
Published by John Goodchild. 1st 1985. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Rosemary Langford was born in Singapore but was sent to school in England. Just before she was due to return to school in the Autumn of 1939 she had to spend three weeks in hospital in Singapore. War was declared and Rosemary's mother said she could go to finishing school in Switzerland when the war was over. The author's last book. Green boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0863910580. Some light page browning to pages internally.

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DRAGON QUEST
Written by Allan Baillie. Illustrated by Wayne Harris.
Stock no. 438229
Published by Scholastic. 1st 1996. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Oblong format. Colour illustrations. Be a hero and great warrior - hunting the last dragon! ISBN: 1863881190. SIGNED by author - 'Cheers Rebecca, good luck in finding the dragon!' with small knights helmet illustration. Spine and corners are bumped and worn, with a little chipping. A few indentation marks to covers. Binding is starting to come a little loose in places.

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SUMMER IS A FESTIVAL
Written by Pamela Brown.
Stock no. 438200
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

White boards, metalic red title to spine. For Bethany and the other students at Broomfields, the hightlight of the holidays was to be their performance at Camelyeard's Summer Festival... ISBN: 0340158379. Bumping along a couple of cover edges, with a little browning. A few pages internally have corner creases. Pictorial wrapper is bright with a little edge-creasing and a few wear marks to rear panel and corners.

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JEREMY'S DAY IN THE COUNTRY
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 438207
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Series 401. Buff boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. Bumping along couple of cover edges. Some light green pencil colouring to front endpaper. Free front endpaper has an extensive ink drawing of a person to it. Some of the b/w illustrations above text to text pages have the characters tails coloured with biro. Ink tick and cross marks to other ladybird titles page to rear of book. Pictorial wrapper has ink underlining to titles on rear flap, edge-tear to front flap, and a few other smaller edge-tears and nicks. Name in pencil written across front of front panel. A few other smaller marks to wrapper. Overall, still a good copy of this scarce item.

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DAYS IN CATLAND
Written by Arthur Burnaby. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 627756
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1912. Good condition.

A Father Tuck's Panorama. Oblong format. 4 plates in concertina form that fold out to create a large panorama with 14 numbered card figures of cats, and corresponding numbered slits in the panorama to insert the cat figures. On the reverse is a rhyme by Arthur Burnaby with b/w illustrations also by Wain. Concertina folds worn leading to two pages being detached and last page fold fragile but holding. Edges rubbed. All figures present and in place. Light page bronwing. Colour illustrations and figures nice and bright.

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THE MASTER OF MARYKNOLL
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Alice Bush.
Stock no. 806406
Published by Evans Brothers Limited. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

An exciting story set in Ludlow and Hereford. Blue boards, gilt titles. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. Endpapers are maps. 223 pages. Bumping to a couple of corners. Some browning along cover edges. Foxing to outer page edges and a few page margins. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis plate. Pictorial wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with a couple of small pieces of loss, to top of front panel and top and tail of spine. Grubby marks to rear panel; edge-creasing.

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FROGGETT'S REVENGE
Written by K.M. Peyton. Illustrated by Lesley Smith.
Stock no. 806439
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1985. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0192715135. Spine and corners are lightly bumped.

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SKYLARK
Written by K.M. Peyton. Illustrated by Liz Roberts.
Stock no. 806440
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1989. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0192715844. Couple of light marks to pictorial wrapper.

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STEALAWAY
Written by K.M. Peyton. Illustrated by David Wyatt.
Stock no. 806452
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Part of the Shock Shop Series. Black boards, red metalic title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0333948238. Light damp mark to front endpaper and next page.

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HELLO WORLD
Written by Michael Foreman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 806216
Published by Walker Books. 1st 2003. Fine condition.

Large square format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations throughout. As the day begins, Teddy and Baby set out to discover the world around them... ISBN: 074459281x. SIGNED by author to title page. A beautiful copy.

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THE TWELFTH HOLIDAY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Weink; Grace Lodge; Yvonne Perrin; et al..
Stock no. 806236
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth spine with gilt title, pale blue boards with gilt title and vignette to front. Colour plates and text illustrations. 156 pages. First story is "One Christmas Eve". Light wear to cover edges. Name and address in ink to half-title page. Dot-to-dot on page 73 completed. Page 96/97 have some surface paper damage. It looks like at one time, the pages got a little damp and the pages were stuck together next to spine. Now some of page 97 (illustration page) has stuck to edges of page 96, making a 1" hole in illustration, so affecting illustration to verso of page 97. Rest of contents are excellent. Pictorial wrapper is a little edge-torn and chipped, with only a couple of small chips of loss.

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