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FOLK SONGS OF BOHEMIA
Written by Dorothy Cooper. Illustrated by M. Fischerova-Kvechova.
Stock no. 1316437
Published by Raf. D. Szalatnay. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Red cloth spine. Cream decorated boards. Blue decorated endpapers. 10 full-page colour illustrations with musical scores opposite. Spine bumped. Corners worn with some surface paper loss, crack to top corner of front cover. Contents browned else clean.

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ABU JMEEL'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Jamal Sleem Nuweihed.
Stock no. 1507027
Published by Interlink Publishing Group Inc.. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

Arab Folk Tales from Palestine and Lebanon. Retold by Nuweihed. Pictorial cardwraps. 27 tales. 348 pages. ISBN: 1566564182. Light crease to lower front corner. Light foxing and a few small marks to text block.

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RICH MAN, POOR MAN, BEGGARMAN, THIEF
Written by Marcus Crouch. Illustrated by William Stobbs.
Stock no. 1507025
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1985. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Folk tales from around the world. Blue boards, silver title to spine. 25 tales. B/w illustrations. 179 pages. ISBN: 0192781111. Top edge of text block foxed. Dustwrapper ever so slightly edge worn with isbn label to rear flap.

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THE FOOLISH MEN OF AGRA AND OTHER TALES OF MOGUL INDIA
Written by Rina Singh. Illustrated by Farida Zaman.
Stock no. 1506987
Published by Key Porter Books. 1st 1998. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A collection of 10 delightfully funny and poignant stories drawn from the traditional tales of Mogul India. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 48 pages. ISBN: 1550137719. Dustwrapper is ever so slightly edge worn.

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SIR GREENHAT AND THE WIZARD
Written by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Illustrated by William Stobbs.
Stock no. 1502670
Published by Methuen Children's Books Ltd.. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A collection of folk tales from countries as far apart as South Africa and Denmark, Japan and Britanny. Brown boards with gilt title in green title block to spine. B/w illustrations. 172 pages. 14 tales. ISBN: 041677900X. Erased pencil writing to front endpaper and half-title page. Grubby finger marks to margin of page 142, contents otherwise very good. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a very faded spine. Light stain along top edge and an odd mark to panels. Original price crossed out on front flap.

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THE HONEST THIEF
Written by Val Biro. Illustrated by Val Biro.
Stock no. 1207830
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1972. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Hungarian folk-tale. Colour pictorial boards. Green endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0340164522. Wrapper price-clipped with rubbed corners

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THE PRINCE & THE IMPOSSIBLE QUEST (A TREASURE HOUR STORY BOOK LR 5)
Written by Petre Ispirescu.
Stock no. 1605600
Published by Murrays Sales & Service Co.; Ion Creanga Publishing House. 1974. Good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Translated from the Romanian by Ana Cartianu. Retold by Lornie Leete-Hodge. 16 pages. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0719602947. Covers creased and grubby. Page corners are creased and there are some grubby marks but overall contents are VG.

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THE TALKING THRUSH AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA
Written by W.H.D. Rouse; W. Crooke. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1310971
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. Collected by W. Crooke and retold by Rouse. Indian folk-tales. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Covers grubby and marked, red ink marks to front cover. Child's red ink writing to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, foxing to page edges. Front joint cracked. Lower corner of rear free-endpaper torn off (only a small piece).

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JUMPING MOUSE
Written by Brian Patten. Illustrated by Mary Moore.
Stock no. 1807542
Published by The Hawthorn Press. 2nd 2010. Nearly fine condition.

Second Edition. A folk-tale. Purple pictorial boards and endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781903458990.

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JUMPING MOUSE
Written by Brian Patten. Illustrated by Mary Moore.
Stock no. 1805435
Published by The Hawthorn Press. 2nd 2010. Nearly fine condition.

Second Edition. A folk-tale. Purple pictorial boards and endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781903458990. Light scuffing to covers, contents fine.

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HEREAFTERTHIS
Written by Joseph Jacobs. Illustrated by Paul Galdone.
Stock no. 1305411
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1973. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

From a folktale by Joseph Jacobs. Oblong format. White pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0370020286. Slight wear to spine and corners. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tears to top and tail of spine.

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THE BLUE ROSE
Written by Maurice Baring. Illustrated by Anne Dalton.
Stock no. 447022
Published by Kaye & Ward. 1st 1982. Nearly fine condition.

Which suitor will find the blue rose and win the hand of the emperor's wise and beautiful daughter? Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0718221001. Diagonal crease to front endpaper. Book is otherwise in fine condition. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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