THE LORD OF KINGS
Written by Lucy Diamond. Illustrated by C.E. Brock; Irene Mountfort.
Stock no. 718861
Published by Collins. Circa 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Stories from the Old Testament. Large format. Red cloth spine, pictorial front board. Full-page colour plates by Brock. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Wrapper is edge-worn with slight loss to top of spine.

KATE GREENAWAY'S PAINTING BOOK
Written by Kate Greenaway. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 308534
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Outlines from various Greenaway works for Boys and Girls to paint. 9.5 x 7". Front cover shows two girls with doll and paint brush. Lower half of front cover detached. Names written in ink and coloured pencil to front cover. Paper covering from spine has rubbed off. Covers are grubby. Most pages partially coloured, some better than others! Drawings to some blank pages. Some coloured pencil marks to margins and a little writing. Overall a nice copy of a scarce, fragile item.

THE KATE GREENAWAY BOOK
Written by Bryan Holme. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 604987
Published by Viking Press, NY. 1st USA 1976. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A collection of illustration, verse and text. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0670411833. Small mark left by removal of label from front endpaper.

THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE
Written by Bret Harte. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 619210
Published by Universal Books. 1st 1987. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Originally published c1885, this is a facsimile edition. The Queen of the title is Polly, nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour and had never been to sea, but a very imaginative character... Beautifully illustrated with delicately coloured paintings. Dark green cloth. 60 pages. 10.5 x 8.5". ISBN: 0864410182. Spine bumped. Rear cover lightly marked. Outer page margins very lightly yellowed else contents fine. Dustwrapper very slightly grubby. A nice copy.

THE KATE GREENAWAY BOOK
Written by Bryan Holme. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 654911
Published by Penguin. 1st 1977. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wrap edition. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0140045198.

LITTLE ANN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Jane Taylor; Ann Taylor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 606453
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1882. Slightly better than very good condition.

Olive green spine and corners, cream pictorial boards. Yellow endpapers. Blue edges. 64 pages. 9.25 x 6". Printed by Edmund Evans. Very very slight light foxing to prelims otherwise a nice clean copy.

THE MULE OF AVIGNON
Written by Alphonse Daudet. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 606457
Published by Hamish Hamilton Childrens Books. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Pope's mule led a happy and quiet life until the greedy goldsmith's son decided to use her in a scheme to get rich. Oblong format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0241022541. Lower edge of boards rubbed. Corners bumped. Small inscription in ink to front endpaper. Grubby mark to one page. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly stained at top edge.

GOBLIN ISLAND
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by T.H. Robinson.
Stock no. 731273
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Circa 1909. Almost very good condition.

When the Colquouns rent out their house for the summer, two of the children, Jack and Jill, swear a feud against the new occupants. Blue cloth with gilt titles, pictorial onlay to front cover. Pictorial endpapers by A.A.Dixon. Colour frontis, title-page and two other plates. 316 pages. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers a bit grubby. Picture to spine rubbed off. Joints cracked. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Some hinges pulled. Foxing mainly to prelims and last page of text. Some fingering to contents.

THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' ADVENTURE BOOK
Written by John R. Crossland; J.M. Parrish; C. Bernard Rutley; et al. Illustrated by T.H. Robinson; Harry Rountree; et al..
Stock no. 697964
Published by Odhams Press Ltd.. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt titles. Colour pictorial onlay showing aeroplane over the desert. Colour plates. B/w illustrations. First story "Rendezvous Creek" by J.S. Fletcher. A few foxspots to endpapers. Wrapper edge-torn with some loss.

TALES FROM MARIA EDGEWORTH
Written by Maria Edgeworth; Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 711335
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton And Co. Almost very good condition.

With an introduction by Austin Dobson. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decorations. B/w illustrations throughout. 411 pages. Spine and corners worn, spine browned. Endpapers slightly marked. Two embossed address stamps to front endpaper. Contents clean.