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THE BABY'S BOUQUET
Written by Lucy Crane. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1328414
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1878. Good condition.

Brown cloth spine, pictorial boards. Square format. Decorated endpapers. Printed in colours by Edmund Evans. "A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes and Tunes". Companion volume to "The Baby's Opera". Spine and covers worn and marked with fraying of tail ends of spine and light paper loss at corners. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Front joint was broken but has been repaired, although the inner margin of the front free-endpaper has torn. Foxing and grubby fingermarks to contents. Rear joint cracked.

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THE PRIZE FOR GIRLS AND BOYS 1895-97
No author listed.
Stock no. 1328413
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.. 1897 Good condition.

Contains Jan 1895 to Dec 1897. Dark blue textured cloth, gilt title to spine. 40 chromolithograph plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly grubby. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light page browning and foxng. Some hinges pulled but binding still tight.

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BUTTERFLIES IN BRITAIN
Written by Richard Chopping. Illustrated by Richard Chopping.
Stock no. 1328408
Published by Penguin. Circa 1947. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 29. Pictorial boards. Slight wear to cover edges. Covers a little grubby. Inscription in purple felt-tip pen to front pastedown. Contents clean.

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WILLIAM'S TELEVISION SHOW
Written by Richmal Crompton. Illustrated by Thomas Henry.
Stock no. 1328406
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt titles. Gilt vignette of William saluting to spine. B/w illustrations. 256 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Light foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss to top of spine and rear panel is slightly grubby.

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SHORT SORTIES
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1328405
Published by Latimer House Limited. 1st 1950. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, black title to spine. A variety of stories for the older reader by Johns. 202 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Spine and cover edges slightly faded. Light scratch marks to the cloth on the front cover. Foxing to contents. Tiny piece torn from top corner of foreword page (no loss of text). Some page corner creases and some light marks to page margins. Lacking rear free-endpaper.

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OUTSIDE OVER THERE
Written by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1328401
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1981. Almost very good condition.

Ida's baby sister is snatched away by the goblins... Red cloth, gilt titles. Oblong format. Large colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0370304039. Erased pencil markings to front free-endpaper. Some light bumping to cover edges. Dustwrapper is edge worn, faded to spine with a hole at the word 'there'. Slight markings to rear panel of wrapper.

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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF COMICS
Written by George Perry; Alan Aldridge.
Stock no. 1328400
Published by Penguin. 1st 1967. Very good condition.

The story of strip cartoons since comics began. White pictorial cardwraps. 256 pages. B/w illustrations. White covers slightly grubby, pale browning to spine. Pale page edge browning. Contents clean.

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THE WORLD OF RUPERT ALBUM 2
No author listed. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1328396
Published by Egmont Uk Limited. 1st thus 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

Book 2 in The Collector's Album Series, celebrating the illustrations of Alfred Bestall. Containing Rupert and the Little River; Rupert's Big Game Hunt and Rupert and the Hazel Nut. Large format. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9781405240246. Corners slightly bumped.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE BOOK
Written by Mary Tourtel. Illustrated by Mary Tourtel.
Stock no. 1328394
Published by L.T.A Robinson. Almost very good condition.

Title page is "The New Rupert Colour Adventure Book". Laminated boards. Front cover shows Rupert climbing down a castle wall by means of a rope. Coloured and red/white pictures throughout. First story is Rupert and his Pet Monkey. 10.5 x 8.5". Unpaginated. Spine bumped and worn, corners very slightly bumped. A few pages are marked by a sticky/greasy spot.

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WALT DISNEY'S WONDER BOOK
Written by Walt Disney. Illustrated by Walt Disney.
Stock no. 1328392
Published by The Sunshine Press. Very good condition.

Fun, Stories, Puzzles and Rhymes. Red cloth spine, blue pictorial glazed boards show Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Chip & Dale on a planet in space. 1st story is Spaceman Duck. Spine and corners bumped with wear. Sum puzzle completed in pencil. Some foxing else contents clean.

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THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE
Written by Franz Bonn. Illustrated by Franz Bonn.
Stock no. 1328391
Published by Kestrel Books. 1978. Very good condition.

A reproduction of the 1878 antique pop-up book. Contain 4 pop-up scenes of theatre stage and characters from fairy tales. ISBN: 0722655363. Spine and corners bumped. A couple of tiny scuff marks to lower edge of front cover. Some slight creasing to rear pastedown (binding error).

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THE GREAT MENAGERIE AN ADAPTION OF THE ANTIQUE POP-UP BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1328390
Published by Kestrel Books; Penguin. 1979. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. 6 pop-up pages. ISBN: 0722656483. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Colour from the small cloth tabs has transferred to the pages.

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