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MY FAVOURITE NURSERY STORIES
Written by Constance Wickham. Illustrated by V.G. Messenger.
Stock no. 661887
Published by Sandle Brothers Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Small square format. Pictorial paperboards. Full-page brightly coloured illustrations. Top and tail of spine worn with very slight loss. Corners rubbed. Name in ink to front pastedown. Pictorial wrapper has been backed with white paper, with loss to spine and edges and no front-flap.

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BO-BELL QUINN
Written by Jennie A. Oliver. Illustrated by Cora E.M. Paterson.
Stock no. 568062
Published by Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd.. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A tale about some pixies who lived in Smokey City and their journey to Cornwall, the place where pixies first came from, to become Cornish Pixies at last! Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0722313942. Large inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial wrapper.

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EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON
No author listed. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
Stock no. 691590
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1915. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt vignette to front cover. 24 superb tipped-in colour plates. A collection of stories which originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's "Popular Tales from the Norse". Spine slightly bumped, corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Spine slightly cocked. Foxing to endpapers and prelims. Contents bright and clean. An early reprint of this beautiful, scarce book.

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PUSS IN BOOTS: THE STORY OF A SNEAKY CAT
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 802876
Published by Delacorte Press. 1ST THUS 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0440071577. Ink mark to front endpaper. Library edition sticker to wrapper.

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RUMPELSTILZCHEN
No author listed. Illustrated by Brunhild Schlotter.
Stock no. 568935
Published by Scholz Mainz. Very good condition.

Brown cloth spine, white pictorial front board. Colour & b/w illustrations. Text in German. Boards grubby.

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PETERPUCK
Written by Natalie Morris Hancock. Illustrated by Laite.
Stock no. 604043
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1933. Very good condition.

Beige buckram. 4 pretty pastel colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Covers very slightly marked.

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PUSS IN BOOTS
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 677854
Published by Ladybird Books. 1st thus 1996. Nearly fine condition.

A Picture Ladybird book. Purple pictorial cardwraps. The story of a sneaky cat. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 072149689X.

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THE STORY OF HANS ANDERSEN SWAN OF DENMARK
Written by Ruth Manning-Sanders; Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Astrid Walford.
Stock no. 317675
Published by E.P.Dutton & Co.. 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of Andersen's early life. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. American Edition. Slight foxing to contents. Spine bumped. price-cut from dustwrapper.

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THE EVERYDAY FAIRY BOOK
Written by Anna Alice Chapin. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 621632
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Slightly better than very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, black title. Pictorial front board showing little boy peeping behind a curtain into a christmas scene. 7 colour plates. 159 pages. 11.5 x 8.5". Corners worn. Slight discolouration to base of spine. Rear joint cracked, front joint starting to crack. Just a little pale foxing.

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THE EVERYDAY FAIRY BOOK
Written by Anna Alice Chapin. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 710687
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1929. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Blue cloth spine, black title. Pictorial front board showing little boy peeping behind a curtain into a christmas scene. 7 colour plates. 159 pages. 11.5 x 8.5". Spine faded at head and tail and slightly damp spotted. Corners slightly bumped. Light fading to rear board edges. Some light foxing but contents are generally bright and clean. Wrapper is worn and torn with loss at edges, grubby to rear.

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GAMBLE GOLD
Written by Edward Abbott Parry. Illustrated by Harry Furniss.
Stock no. 314281
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st Almost very good condition.

Red pictorial binding. Gilt titles and decorations. All edges gilt. B/w illustrations.

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IT'S PERFECTLY TRUE!
Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen.
Stock no. 404036
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

And other stories, translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac. Red cloth covers, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. B/w frontis piece showing author. B/w text illustrations. 337 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Spine faded. Small split to side of spine. Inscriptions to front endpaper. Contents otherwise bright and clean.

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