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ON THE ROAD TO MAKE-BELIEVE
Written by Frederick J. Forster. Illustrated by Uldene Trippe.
Stock no. 1709249
Published by Rand McNally & Co.. 1924. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth. Large colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour illustrations throughout. Corners bumped and worn. Spine scuffed.

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A HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Moysey.
Stock no. 1709234
Very good condition.

Small format. Pictorial card wraps. Contents in book are folded. Colour illustrations. Last page, has inscription in ink. Staples rusty.

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THE MOLE & THE MOUSE
Written by Torfrida Oliver. Illustrated by Elsie Mavrogordato.
Stock no. 1709233
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1948. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Warne's Cosy Corner Books series. Small format. White pictorial boards. Unpaginated. Colour plates. Corners bumped. Endpapers browned. Wrapper has a few small closed tears and is a little grubby.

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SEARCH FOR A SONG
Written by Elfrida Vipont. Illustrated by Peter Edwards.
Stock no. 1311185
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth, red title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 150 pages. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and page edges. Erase pencil writing to top corner of front endpaper. Inscription in biro to title-page. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn, a little grubby to rear panel, some foxing to flaps and verso.

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THE BEETLE
Written by Hans Christian Andersen.
Stock no. 1709213
Published by Sandle Brothers Ltd.. 1st 1944. Very good condition.

Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Corners bumped.

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IN THE KINGDOM OF THE FUTURE
Written by Norma Bright Carson. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1311180
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1916. Almost very good condition.

Cream boards. Blue title to spine. Pictorial onlay and title/vignettes in gilt to front cover. 2 colour plates. 29 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers grubby. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned and foxed, some foxing to page edges. Some pale fingermarks to page margins.

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IRENE'S CHRISTMAS PARTY
Written by Richard Hunter. Illustrated by Ruth Cobb.
Stock no. 1311179
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1904. Very good condition.

The Dumpy Books For Children series no. 33. Small format (5 x 3"). Green cloth with darker green lines and titles. Colour illustrations. 103 pages, printed on one side of the paper only. Spine and corners bumped. A few pale marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Hinges cracked. Name and address in ink to rear endpaper and small booksellers sticker to pastedown. A nice copy of a scarce little book.

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RYAN'S FORT
Written by Patricia Lynch. Illustrated by Elisabeth Grant.
Stock no. 1501704
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1961. Slightly better than good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ryan's Fort is a small stone hut, the first real home the children of the Ryan family have ever known. Green boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 172 pages. Ex-library so stamps to publisher's page and removal of label from front pastedown. Tape residue to covers and endpapers. A little bumping to spine and corners. Small indentation to top edge of front cover. A few marks to contents. Dustwrapper is price-cut with revised label above. Slightly edge worn and grubby to rear panel, tape residue to flap.

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LITTLE FOLKS VOL 25
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain; et al..
Stock no. 1311173
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1887. Almost very good condition.

A Magazine for the Young, new and enlarged series. Cloth spine, pictorial boards with front showing face of little girl in circle to centre surrounded by roses. First story ""Bunty and the Boys". Colour frontis and one other colour plate, b/w illustrations throughout. Binding has been professionally repaired/reinforced with possible new spine and tape to joints (matches yellow paper of endpapers). Foxing and grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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THE TRAVAILS OF SANCHO PANZA
Written by James Saunders.
Stock no. 1501694
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1970. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Some favourite episodes from Cervantes' story of Don Quixote and his long suffering servant Sancho Panza woven into a boisterous and humane comedy play. Black boards with gilt title to spine. 111 pages. ISBN: 043523787X. Patch of surface paper damage near top edge of rear cover approx. 2 x 3cm. A little bumping to spine and corners. Contents very good. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with browning to spine and folds.

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THE SECRET OF HOLLOW HILL
Written by Garry Hogg. Illustrated by Drake Brookshaw.
Stock no. 1501692
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1951. Very good condition.

Green covers with gilt title to spine. Endpapers are maps. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. 214 pages. Spine bumped and worn. Top corners worn, lower corners worn and frayed. A little foxing.

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IF AT FIRST YOU DO NOT SEE
Written by Ruth Brown. Illustrated by Ruth Brown.
Stock no. 1807947
Published by Andersen Press. 1985. Very good condition.

Caterpillar searches for something to eat but all is not as it seems... Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Interesting colour illustrations. ISBN: 0862640210. Top & tail of spines worn, corners lightly rubbed. Fingermarks to verso of front endpaper else contents clean. Lower corners lightly creased where corner was bumped.

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