PICTURE LIVES OF GREAT HEROES
No author listed.
Stock no. 2114723
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Circa 1886. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Brown cloth with gilt title and green/brown decorations to front. With 48 coloured and tinted illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Front endpaper is browned, with tear to bottom of page next to spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. A few hinges are pulled. Margin marks and a little foxing.

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THE FIRE ANIMAL
Written by Gerda Rottschalk; Elvira Bonfield. Illustrated by Gerhard Preuss.
Stock no. 1312221
Published by Richard Sadler Ltd.. 1st UK 1973. Very good condition.

Set in China some 400,000 years go, vividly portraying primitive man's daily life and habits. White glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Translated from the German by Bonfield. ISBN: 0085410096. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents clean.

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VALOUR AND VICTORY
Written by Gordon Stables; E.A Gillie; C.H. Lyall; Duncan McLaren; G. Stebbing; Kade Chattan.
Stock no. 1605694
Published by John F. Shaw & Co.. Good condition.

Green boards with illustrated front panel and spine. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Inspiring historical tales of Empire. Front joint cracked. Pages browned at margins. Spine and corners bumped, some surface damage to lower corner.

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TRADING AND TRAVELLING
Written by E.H. Dance. Illustrated by C.F.G. Viner; H.A. Bennett.
Stock no. 1709658
Published by Longman. 1965. Very good condition.

Man's Heritage Series. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. 60 pages. Spine faded. Name in ink to first page.

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THE STORY OF SAINT JOAN
Written by Margaret R. Keary.
Stock no. 1310965
Published by A.R.Mowbray & Co. Ltd. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 130 pages. Rear endpapers are a map of Northern and Central France. 9 b/w plates plus a plan of Orleans. Spine and corners worn, spine and rear cover rubbed. Name in heavy pencil to front endpaper. Foxing and fingering else contents clean. Endpapers discoloured.

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LIVING TOWNS
Written by E.H. Dance. Illustrated by H.C. McBeath.
Stock no. 1807539
Published by Longmans. 1964. Very good condition.

Man's Heritage series. The history of the town, a children's book. Cardwrap booklet with brown cloth spine. B/w illustrations. 60 pages. Second impression. Light rubbing to edges of card covers. Small name in ink to top of title page. Slight bowing of contents. Contents are clean.

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GREAT EXPLORERS
Written by A.A. Bass. Illustrated by Clarke Hutton.
Stock no. 1308383
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1965. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Young Learner Books series edited by J.C.Gagg, History. Pictorial boards. 30 pages. Colour illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine. Rear panel of wrapper is just a little grubby from scuffing.

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A DAUGHTER OF FRANCE
Written by Eliza F. Pollard.
Stock no. 1704292
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Circa 1916. Almost very good condition.

A Story of Acadia. Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and colour picture to front cover. Colour frontis + 3 colour plates. Covers grubby. Belongs to box completed in ink. Some foxing.

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THE THRESHOLD OF HISTORY
Written by H.R. Hall. Illustrated by Nancy Smith; Hilda Booth.
Stock no. 381411
Published by George G. Harrap & Co.. 1st 1914. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Beige pictorial cloth. 4 colour plates mounted on grey card, b/w text illustrations. 158 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Prize plate to front pastedown. Light foxing. Some page corners lightly creased. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss at spine and corners, browned to spine.

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DROMKEEN: A JOURNEY INTO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Written by Jeffrey Prentice; Bettina Bird.
Stock no. 701787
Published by Henry Holt and Company. 1st USA 1988. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Lilac boards, gilt title. Lilac endpapers. B/w and colour illutrations. ISBN: 0805007733.

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INFANTILLA THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NURSERY
Written by Arnold L. Haskell; Min Lewis. Illustrated by Stanley Lewis.
Stock no. 709079
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1971. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Telling in drawings and text the history of perambulators, feeding bottles, and rattles. A fascination for anyone who has ever been pushed in a pram! Superb b/w illustrations. Cream mottled cloth. Bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Orange illustrated wrapper very slightly grubby to rear with spine sunned and small nick to top.

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THE STORY OF THE NURSERY
Written by Magdalen King-Hall.
Stock no. 711036
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photo plates. A history of the nursery from the Middle Ages to the early years of the 20th century. Spine lightly bumped. Green wrapper is a little edge-worn and price-cut.

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