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THE LITTLE ONE IN BETWEEN
Written by Marion St. John Webb. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1329063
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition.

A book of 26 delightful verses accompanied with 4 beautiful colour plates. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine and small embossed vignette. 59 pages. Cr 8vo. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Foxing to contents.

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MARKO'S WEDDING
Written by Ian Serraillier. Illustrated by Victor Ambrus.
Stock no. 1329053
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Re-tellings of heroic folk poetry from Serbia and of old ballads and a folk tale from England and Scotland. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 111 pages. ISBN: 0233961054. Spine bumped. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

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NUTSHELL LIBRARY
Written by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1329045
Published by Harper & Row. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Set of 4 volumes - "Chicken Soup With Rice", "Pierre", "One Was Johnny" and "Alligators All Around". Pink cloth, brown titles and vignettes. Colour illustrations. Approx 30 pages to each volume. Small books being, 3.5 x 2.5". Contained in a pictorial slip-case. Books are fine. Wrappers are a little browned, the spine of One Was Johnny is rubbed and the panels of Alligators are browned. Wrapper of Chicken Soup has the small off-white band to base of spine. Slipcase is just a little rubbed at corners.

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JOYCE STRANGER'S BOOK OF HANAK'S ANIMALS
Written by Joyce Stranger. Illustrated by Mirko Hanak.
Stock no. 1329021
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Prose and poems accompany enchanting pictures of animals. White cloth, gilt title to spine. 103 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0460066242. Spine and corners very slightly bumped. Some slight browning at cover edges and foxing to top edges. Pale page browning and light foxing to top edge of textblock else contents clean. Dustwrapper is just a tiny bit edge rubbed.

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THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE FLOWER FAIRIES
Written by Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 1829246
Published by Frederick Warne; The Penguin Group. 1st thus 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Cream boards, silver titles. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0723248397. A few foxspots to endpapers else contents are clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and front edges, has a few minor grubby marks and is scuffed to rear panel.

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A BOOK OF THE SEASONS
Written by Eve Garnett. Illustrated by Eve Garnett.
Stock no. 1328975
Published by Frederick Muller Limited. 1969. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

An anthology of seasonal poetry. Brown cloth spine, white pictorial boards. 4 full-page colour illustrations and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0584620047. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Light foxing to textblock else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn, foxed to spine.

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PANSIES
Written by Clifton Bingham; Frances Ridley Havergal; et al.
Stock no. 1328973
Published by Ernest Nister. Circa 1933. Good condition.

White cloth, gilt title and decoration to front cover. Lovely colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. White covers are grubby, ink imprint to front cover. Front joint and some hinges cracked. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Staples rusty. A few small brown spots to some page margins.

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THIS REALM
Written by Diane Elson. Illustrated by Diane Elson.
Stock no. 1328969
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poetry and prose by various authors (Longfellow, Blake, Thackeray, etc). Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour illustrations. ISBN: 0437377059. Spine slightly bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased and slightly grubby. Spine of wrapper is browned.

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MISCELLANY ONE
Written by Edward Blishen. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith; Charles Keeping; Victor G. Ambrus; et al..
Stock no. 1328966
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book that has something for every young reader! Short-stories by well known authors, such as Rosemary Sutcliff and Eric Allen. There are also poems of all sorts scattered throughout the book. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Colour plates. 202 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is worn at top of spine.

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THE GOLDEN STAIRCASE
Written by Louey Chisholm. Illustrated by M.D. Spooner.
Stock no. 1328903
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown decorated cloth with circular onlay to front. 16 colour plates. 361 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers are partly browned. Foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss. Price sticker to spine (7/6 net).

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YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1328896
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Good condition.

A book of verses illustrated with beautiful colour plates. Red cloth, gilt titles. Pictorial onlay to front cover. White endpapers with gold vignettes. Green and white text illustrations throughout. 47 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some rubbing/scuffing to covers and a marks to edge of rear cover. Small hole to rear edge of spine. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Lower corner of browned frontis tissue-guard has been torn off. Endpapers are lightly browned. Some light foxing and some grubby fingermarks to page margins but generally contents clean.

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THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
Written by Robert Browning. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1328831
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1928. Very good condition.

Orange decorated cloth with black title to spine, gilt title to front. 8 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 41 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown.

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