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THE TALE OF GINGER & PICKLES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 2130409
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1971. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Cream boards with pictorial onlay to front cover. Green titles. 75 pages. Colour illustrations. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is browned to spine and edges. A few marks to wrapper, also closed tear.

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MY MOTHER
Written by R.M. Ballantyne; Comus; Ann Taylor.
Stock no. 2130362
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1st 1857. Good condition.

An adaptation of the poem by Ann Taylor, with a prose version and two musical settings. Comus is the pseudonym for R.M.Ballantyne. Large format. Green embossed cloth with gilt title and vignette to front cover. 32 pages. 8 attractive colour plates. The story of a kitten. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Grubby marks and uneven fading to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Creasing and a few margin tears, foxing, including to plate pages. Frontis is very creased; appears to at one time have been folded. Some damp marks. A reading copy.

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LITTLE GREY RABBIT'S WASHING-DAY
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 2130240
Published by Collins. 1st 1942. Fair condition.

Grey pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. 84 pages. Grubby marks and wear to covers. Scuffing and some surface paper damage to edges. A few hinges are pulled. Pages 12 and 13 have ink spillage across them. A reading copy only!

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THE FOUR CATS OF THE TIPPERTONS
Written by Julia Goddard.
Stock no. 2129993
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. Almost very good condition.

Two blue cloths with gilt titles. Leaf vignette. And Other Stories about Animals. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some chipping/fraying to cloth. Scuffing. Grubby marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing and grubby marks to pages.

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CUBBY IN MOTHER BROWN'S PANTRY
Written by Thornton W. Burgess. Illustrated by Nina R. Jordan.
Stock no. 2129901
Published by Whitman Publishing Company. Circa 1929. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Cubby Bear story. Small oblong format (4.5 x 5"). Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Wear to cover edges. Contents have been glued to binding (appears that stitching become weak). Joints a bit cracked. Grubby margin marks. Wrapper is creased with some edge-tears and chips; a little loss.

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BRER RABBIT
Written by Joel Chandler Harris; Marcus Crouch. Illustrated by William Stobbs.
Stock no. 2129848
Published by Pelham Books. 1st thus 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0720709865. Bumping along cover edges. Page edge browning, some foxing. Wrapper is price-cut with a few chips and nicks; a few marks.

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THE TWIRLY-WHIRLY BOOK
Written by Jacqueline Clayton. Illustrated by Margaret Clayton.
Stock no. 2129669
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Circa 1913. Very good condition.

Off-white covers with red title and border and pictorial onlay to front. Colour frontis plate. 11 additional colour plates to contents, each facing a page of rhyme. 9.25 x 7 inches. Bumping o corners. Some marks and browning to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing/browning to endpapers; a few to page margins. Plates are lovely and bright!

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THE IRRESPONSIBLE GOAT
Written by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 2129463
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with black titles and vignette. Two colour and b/w illustrations. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is foxed and browned.

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ANIMALS AT HOME
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 2128863
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1950. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. New edition. Old Thatch Series. Staples have rusted, so a few brown spots are showing through to front cover. Some creasing to corners. The odd grubby margin mark.

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BRER RABBIT AND HIS FRIENDS
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Oxley.
Stock no. 2128862
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1948. Good condition.

New Edition of the Old Thatch Series No. 5 (contents are Old Thatch series No. 9). Large format. Pictorial paperwraps (cover illustration by Mary Smith). 62 pages. Full-page b/w illustrations. Bottom 2-3" of spine are chipped and mostly missing. Top 1" of spine is chipped. Creasing to covers and pages; some foxing and browning.

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THE FIRELIT FOREST
Written by Norah K. Colman. Illustrated by B. Ross Jones.
Stock no. 2128847
Published by University of London Press Ltd.. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Beige cloth, red title to spine and vignette to front cover. Delightful colour plates and b/w illustrations of forest animals. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some grubby marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE WILLIE WADDLE BOOK 1930
No author listed.
Stock no. 1317610
Published by John Leng & Co. Ltd.. 1930. Good condition.

Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board showing the animals enjoying a water slide. First story is "Willie's Christmas Cracker". 125 pages. 3-tone text illustrations throughout. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers edge worn and scuffed. Light scratch marks to front cover. Contents browned with some slight spotting. Hinges pulled causing contents to be a little loose.

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