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THE STORY OF SAINT JOAN
Written by Margaret R. Keary.
Stock no. 1310965
Published by A.R.Mowbray & Co. Ltd. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 130 pages. Rear endpapers are a map of Northern and Central France. 9 b/w plates plus a plan of Orleans. Spine and corners worn, spine and rear cover rubbed. Name in heavy pencil to front endpaper. Foxing and fingering else contents clean. Endpapers discoloured.

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THE CAPTAIN'S YOUNGEST PICCINO AND OTHER CHILD STORIES
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Stock no. 1310962
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Almost very good condition.

Brown decorated cloth. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and very slightly worn. Front endpapers replaced. Lower corner of page 39/40 is slightly damaged with some loss (no text lost). Light foxing and fingering else contents clean.

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THE FOLK DOLL OF SION
Written by Joan Smith. Illustrated by Prudence Seward.
Stock no. 1310961
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Hamish Hamilton Antelope Book. Orange pictorial boards. 87 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 024102398X. Cover edges very slightly rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just slightly faded to spine and ever so slightly edge creased.

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WOODLEIGH HOUSE OR; THE HAPPY HOLIDAYS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1310955
Published by T. Nelson & Sons. 1869. Almost very good condition.

Embossed red cloth with gilt titles. 228 pages. B/w plates (with tissue-guards) and text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, covers a bit grubby and marked. Foxing throughout. Hinges pulled. Tissue-guards browned.

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THE ADVENTURES OF OTAIL AND THE JOLLY HOLLYBOYS
Written by Anne Hope. Illustrated by Gertie Breary.
Stock no. 1310953
Published by J. Salmon. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cardwraps. Blue text. Colour illustrations. Spine is slightly creased/rubbed. Small mark to top corner of front cover. Light crease to lower corner of front cover. Contents clean.

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AN OLD STORY OF BETHLEHEM
Written by Elizabeth Charles.
Stock no. 1310927
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. circa 1884. Almost very good condition.

"One link in the Great Pedigree". The story of Ruth and Naomi. Cream cloth with decorated front cover. Floral decorated endpapers. 32 pages, all edges red. Chromolithograph plates. Covers are grubby and slightly worn, spine browned with small tear to lower 2". Name in pencil to front pastedown. There is some very slight damage to the plates in that small pieces of paper from the facing pages has stuck to them.

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PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1501537
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1944. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A little book of extraordinary piety. 30 full page b/w illustrations. 63pp. Blue cloth covers, gilt vignette to front. Spine and corners a little worn. Spine slightly darkened. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Some browning/foxing alongside spine in places otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped, spine is faded as are edges of panels alongside spine.

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THE STORY OF MR SOMMER
Written by Patrick Suskind. Illustrated by Sempe.
Stock no. 1310906
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes, an enchanting story about growing up. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Unusual colour illustrations. ISBN: 0747513082. Spine of book and wrapper both slightly bumped. Some light foxing to top of textblock.

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FIESTA EN EL CIRCO CON ANTEOJOS MAGICOS
Written by Arnold Shapiro. Illustrated by Carroll Andrus.
Stock no. 1401844
Published by Editorial Norma. circa 1978. Very good condition.

The Magic Glasses make the pictures move. Glazed pictorial boards. Paper engineering by Tor Lokvig. 'Circus Fun' in Spanish. Spine a little bumped and faded. Small tear to bottom of front pastedown. Some foxing to contents. All pop-ups in very good working order. Magic glasses still present.

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ADVENTURES AT HAMPTON COURT
Written by Violet Needham. Illustrated by Will Nickless.
Stock no. 1310873
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Neat gilt school stamp to centre of front cover. Spine and corners bumped. Endpapers partly browned/foxed. Foxing to textblock. Prize plate to half-title along with a name in ink below. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with slight loss.

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THE SCHOOL ON THE MOOR
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce.
Stock no. 1310846
Published by Oxford University Press. 1934. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth with swan decoration. Colour frontis. 285 pages. Spine and corners bumped, some grubby fingering and a couple of light marks to covers. Small hole to cloth at front edge of spine. Prize plate to front pastedown. Foxing to contents else clean.

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DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON
Written by Hugh Lofting. Illustrated by Hugh Lofting.
Stock no. 2111628
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Grey cloth, purple titles and borders. Pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Spine is browned, with some damp marks to edges. Chipping and fraying to cloth, especially to bottom edge of front cover. Some foxing and page browning, but contents are generally very good. Wrapper is very browned and marked; some damp stains, chipping, with a little loss and tears/creasing.

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