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THE GREYFRIARS HOLIDAY ANNUAL 1979
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 432024
Published by Howard Baker Press. 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Howard Baker Annual Volume No. 10. Large format. Green boards with gilt title to spine. A series of stories from 'The Magnet's' golden age. ISBN: 0703001493. Light bumping to top and tail of spine and a little fading to base of spine. Pictorial wrapper is creased to front flap and a little browned to spine.

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A LITTLE SILK APRON
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 432035
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 4th 1949. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 474. A Tasseltip Tale. Pictorial paper boards. 1cm loss to base of spine. Couple of small splits to top of spine, with a little chipping and small piece of loss. Corners are bumped and a little worn. Inscription in ink to edition page. A few grubby margin marks. Binding is starting to weaken at spine. Pictorial wrapper has 3/4 of rear flap torn out and missing; Just under an inch loss to base of spine and other chips with loss to edges. A few edge-tears. Still a nice copy of one of the rarer Ladybird books, in its original wrapper!

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THE GREYFRIARS HOLIDAY ANNUAL 1981
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 432015
Published by Howard Baker Press. 1981. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Facsimiles of The Magnet. Green boards, gilt title to spine. Howard Baker Annual Volume No. 14. ISBN: 0703001981.

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THE GREYFRIARS HOLIDAY ANNUAL 1982
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 432016
Published by Howard Baker Press. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. Stories from The Magnet. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0703002171. Pictorial wrapper is chipped to top edges, with some browning.

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UNDER DRAKE'S FLAG
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 586574
Published by Blackie & Son. 1st 1883. Very good condition.

Very dark green full leather binding. Raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine. Marbled boards and endpapers. 368 pages. 12 tinted illustrations. REDUCED from £100. All plates present. Inscription in ink to first blank page. Frontis loose. School crest in gilt to front cover.

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FLOWERS OF DELIGHT
Written by Leonard De Vries.
Stock no. 586457
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1965. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Culled by De Vries from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. An agreeable Garland of Prose & Poetry for the Instruction and Amusement of little Masters and Misses and their distinguished Parents. Large format. Brown decorated boards with gilt title to spine. Embellished with some 750 elegant woodcuts and Engravings of which upwards of 125 are coloured. 232 pages. Corners bumped. Wrapper lightly edge-browned.

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FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION
Written by Elizabeth L. Johnson.
Stock no. 586463
Published by Indiana University Press. 1st 1987. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Elisabeth Ball collection of historical children's materials. Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations.

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SEEING IS BELIEVING
Written by L.E. Tiddeman. Illustrated by Hilda K. Robinson.
Stock no. 586477
Published by Ernest Nister. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations.

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THE SECRET OF THE PLATEAU
Written by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrated by W. Edward Wigfull.
Stock no. 586361
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1931. Almost very good condition.

Grey pictorial cloth. 4 b/w plates. 224 pages. Spine and corners bumped, corners lightly worn. Faint marks to rear cover. Cloth at top of spine a little creased. Front endpaper missing and damage to front pastedown. Foxing to prelims and page edges.

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FAERIE WARS
Written by Herbie Brennan.
Stock no. 586397
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 2003. As new condition in a fine dustwrapper.

An exciting story about the conflict of a group of unscrupulous faeries of the night and some demons. Pictorial boards. ISBN: 0747559449. A superb copy.

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A LITTLE CHAFF
Written by Margaret Lavington. Illustrated by Helen Urquhart.
Stock no. 737072
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1919. Almost very good condition.

A cheerful little book of rhymes based on the farm and its animals. Green pictorial boards, cloth spine. 3 colour plates and 2-tone (black and yellow) illustrations to contents throughout. Cover edges rubbed, corners worn. A few small dents to cover edges. New endpapers front and rear (which are lightly foxed). Contents clean.

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THE WONDERFUL CASTLE
Written by Mary E. Murray. Illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick.
Stock no. 586278
Published by The Sunday School Union. Circa 1918. Fair condition.

The Red Nursery Series. Bright red pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Book: book plate to front pastedown. Pages browned. Contents loose. Corners and edges worn.

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