ORLANDO (THE MARMALADE CAT) A CAMPING HOLIDAY
Written by Kathleen Hale. Illustrated by Kathleen Hale.
Stock no. 2140228
Published by Country Life. 1st 1938. Almost very good condition.

Very large format, approx 14.25" x 10.5". Green pictorial paper boards. Endpapers are b/w footprint design. Colour illustrations throughout. White spine. The first Orlando adventure. SIGNED by author 'With love to Katie' on verso of front endpaper. Spine is browned, with wear. Scuff/score marks to edge of rear cover. Bumping and chipping to corners and cover edges. Foxing and browning to outer page edges and some page margins.

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MOTHER GOOSE
Written by Peter Patch. Illustrated by Peter Patch; Jean Walmsley Heap.
Stock no. 2140213
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Very good condition.

A Panto-Peep book. Top edge of covers and contents shaped. Lift the flaps and peep through the windows. Brightly illustrated throughout. Oblong format, pictorial paperwraps. Peter Patch is Jean Walmsley Heap. Light wear to edges. Contents are lovely and bright with lift-the-flaps and see-through windows in very good working order.

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THE THREE MULLA-MULGARS
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Stock no. 2140155
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1st thus 1921. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles. 12 b/w and colour plates, including frontis. 275 pages. B/w illustrations. SIGNED by author, with inscription in ink to front endpaper. Also includes a letter from Walter de la Mare to a previous owner (letter dated 1931). Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some browning to spine. Front joint next to free front endpaper is cracked. Page edge browning. Foxing/browning to some pages internally.

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BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Bold.
Stock no. 2140154
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Cream/beige cloth spine with title label and gilt titles. Grey boards. Limited edition to 278 Numbered and Signed copies. B/w woodcuts. SIGNED by author to verso of half-title page. This is Copy No. 51.Spine is browned and worn. Title block is a bit faded and worn. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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MONTY WOODPIG'S CARAVAN
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 2140014
Published by Edmund Ward. 1st 1957. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Yellow boards, green title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 wonderful colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Monty was a Bachelor Hedgehog of settled habits but he was lonely... Some browning and brown tape glue marks to edges. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. All colour plate are present - some browning. Wrapper is price-cut with tears and chips; a little loss to top of spine; some grubby marks; has been strengthened with sticky tape to edges and folds to verso.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1967
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1323073
Published by Daily Express. 1967. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards - Rupert on snow-covered hill pulling a dog on a sledge. 1st story Rupert and the Lost List. Magic Painting pages. No facsimile produced for this year. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Tiny indentation to lower edge of front cover. Not inscribed and not price-cut. 2" tear to lower edge of title-page has been neatly repaired. There are a few colour splodges to the magic paintings but on the whole they have NOT been completed. A few page corner tips are slightly creased. A very nice copy.

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THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.
Stock no. 2139762
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1889. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine and vignettes to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations throughout. 390 pages plus 16 page booklist to rear. All edges gilt. Catalogue to rear of book is dated August 1889. Spine is bumped with wear and faded. Corners are bumped. Front hinge next to frontis page is cracked, with browning glue marks showing. Frontis is edge-creased with a few nicks and some foxing. Tissue guard to frontis is heavily foxed. A couple of hinges are pulled. Foxing to varying degrees to pages throughout book.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1942 (FACSIMILE) - MORE ADVENTURES OF RUPERT
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 2139664
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1994. Nearly fine condition.

A limited and numbered collectors edition of the 1942 Rupert book - the most scarce of all the Rupert annuals due to wartime paper shortages. Colour pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. 118 pages. ISBN: 1874507252. Spine is faded with tiny nicks to top and tail. Contents are fine. Slip case is near fine. Copy No. 3108.

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THE NAMELESS BOAT
Written by M. Pardoe. Illustrated by Leslie Atkinson.
Stock no. 1322970
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Mary Gray and the Barnard boys are off for a caravanning holiday on the west coast of Scotland - and to another adventure! Green boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. 191 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Light foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with minimal chipping at top and tail of spine and some rubbing of surface paper too.

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THE LORD FISH
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 2139508
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1933. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Limited edition of 68 Signed and Numbered copies printed on English hand-made paper. SIGNED by author to prelim page, this is Copy No. 59. Some light wear and fading to covers. There are some page edges which are ragged, with grubby marks and a few nicks/chips, where page edges were not fully cut. Marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some marks and nicks and chips; grubby/marked to spine.

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THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.
Stock no. 2139414
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

Specially rebound in modern green leather binding, with raised bands to spine, title blocks, with gilt titles and decorations. Marbled endpapers. All edges are marbled. Numerous b/w illustrations. Wear and chipping to leather on spine and edges. Some scuffing. Front joint is partially cracked in a few places. Inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Soem foxing and browning.

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HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2139410
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Boots the Chemists. Circa 1930. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Published for Boots The Chemist. Large format. Red cloth covers, gilt titles. 16 colour tipped-in plates. Many b/w illustrations. 319 pages. 10 x 7.5". Light bumping to spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and page margins. Wrapper is unevenly faded/browned with creasing and tears and chips; but minimal loss.

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