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DESERT ISLANDS AND ROBINSON CRUSOE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1323483
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1930. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration. B/w title-page illustration plus 4 other text illustrations. Spine bumped, worn and browned. Some fading to top edge of front cover. Vertical mark to centre of rear cover. Tissue-guards are browned. Some slight foxing. Dustwrapper is chipped and torn with loss at edges and to spine/rear panel. Light foxing to verso of wrapper.

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DESERT ISLANDS AND ROBINSON CRUSOE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1323476
Published by Faber & Rinehart, Inc.. 1st USA 1930. Very good condition.

Blue cloth,, gilt title to spine. B/w title-page illustration plus 1 other text illustration. 299 pages, fore-edges untrimmed. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. A few light scuff marks to covers. A few light pencil annotation marks to text but generally contents clean.

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THE LORD FISH
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 2140153
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1933. Almost very good condition.

Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some scuffing. Brown marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer pages edges.

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THE LORD FISH
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 2139508
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1933. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Limited edition of 68 Signed and Numbered copies printed on English hand-made paper. SIGNED by author to prelim page, this is Copy No. 59. Some light wear and fading to covers. There are some page edges which are ragged, with grubby marks and a few nicks/chips, where page edges were not fully cut. Marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some marks and nicks and chips; grubby/marked to spine.

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THE STORY OF MR KORAH
Written by Christabel Aberconway. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1320428
Published by Michael Joseph. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey cloth with red spine. Gilt vignette to lower front corner. Delightful tipped-in colour plates and b/w drawings. How Mr. Korah is taken captive by an octopus but lives to tell the tale. Spine and corners bumped. A few light foxspots to textblock. Faint whiff of tobacco to contents. Dustwrapper is just a little grubby.

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THE STORY OF MR KORAH
Written by Christabel Aberconway. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1305402
Published by Michael Joseph. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey cloth with red spine. Gilt vignette to lower front corner. Delightful tipped-in colour plates and b/w drawings. How Mr. Korah is taken captive by an octopus but lives to tell the tale. Minimal bumping to spine. Name in ink to front endpaper. Plates present and in fine condition. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby with a small mark to top corner of rear panel and some slight loss at corners.

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