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WISH ON PIG
Written by Barbara Ward. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes.
Stock no. 1328387
Published by Collins. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Story about a dog called Nipper. Green boards, silver title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 159 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Heavy foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed with small patch of surface paper damage to spine.

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THE QUEEN'S CROWN
Written by Lucy W. Bellhouse. Illustrated by Barbara Moray Williams.
Stock no. 1328386
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1940. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with dark blue titles and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. 95 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped, a few foxspots to covers. Endpapers partly browned. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper was in two pieces (torn along front spine fold) and has now been repaired with tape on verso. Other tape repairs also to verso.

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ABOUT BARNEY
Written by Anne Casserley. Illustrated by Richard Kennedy.
Stock no. 1328385
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Barney was the Farmer's donkey and when there was trouble he was usually at the bottom of it! Yellow cloth, blue title to spine. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Small, faint mark to front cover. Endpapers partly browned, slight foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn, grubby and browned to rear panel and spine

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RONNIE RABBIT
Written by T. Payten Gunton. Illustrated by Frank Rogers.
Stock no. 1328384
Published by The Grant Educational Co. Ltd.. 1949. Good condition.

Stiff cardwraps with pale grey linen cloth covering. Four colour plates and b/w text illustrations. 104 pages. 7.75" x 5.75". Foxing to covers and some slight fraying of cloth to spine ends. Endpapers browned.

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THE STORY OF PETER PAN
Written by J.M. Barrie; Daniel O'Connor. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward.
Stock no. 1328383
Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd.. 1941. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Retold from the Fairy Play by Daniel O'Connor. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Blue cloth with dark blue titles to spine and embossed illustration to front. Spine bumped and faded, some fading/foxing to cover edges. Name in belongs to box in pencil. Textblock lightly browned. Only front panel and front flap of wrapper remain (very worn/creased).

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THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Gorey.
Stock no. 1328382
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

6 x 9 ins. Yellow boards with black illustration to front board. Illustrated endpapers. Wonderful b/w drawings illustrate Edward Lear's Nonsense Rhyme. Originally published by Lear in 1847. ISBN: 0701116439. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Damp stain to lower edges of covers. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is damp stained and edge rubbed.

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THE BORROWERS AFIELD
Written by Mary Norton. Illustrated by Diana Stanley.
Stock no. 1328380
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1955. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, red titles and vignettes. Pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, some damp spotting to covers and slight browning to top and tail of spine. Endpapers slightly browned. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with loss, piece torn from top edge of rear panel has been attached with tape on verso. Price has been cut from front flap.

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SILVER JACKANORY
Written by Joan Aiken; Helen Cresswell; Dick King-Smith; Tony Robinson; et al. Illustrated by Quentin Blake; et al..
Stock no. 1328375
Published by BBC Books. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

To mark the 25th birthday of BBC TV's Jackanory a group of well-known writers were asked to write a story on the theme of silver... Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 2 stories illustrated by Blake. ISBN: 0563361719. Minimal bumping to spine.

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THE DAY JEAN-PIERRE WENT ROUND THE WORLD
Written by Paul Gallico. Illustrated by Gioia Fiammenghi.
Stock no. 1328374
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1965. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Exciting adventures of a guinea-pig. Colour pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. Small mark to title-page (from erasure of old pencil price), light foxing to top edge of textblock otherwise a fine copy. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed with slight browning to spine.

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GRAND CIRCUS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1328368
Published by W.H.C. London. Very good condition.

Success Series. Small format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Spine slightly rubbed. Staples rusty. Number "3" written in heavy pencil to rear cover (attempt has been made to erase). Contents clean.

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THE VAIN LITTLE TREE
Written by Joanna Erdody. Illustrated by Grace Lodge.
Stock no. 1328367
Published by The Grout Publishing Company. Good condition.

Small format. White pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations. White covers are slightly grubby. Spine is chipped with loss of spine covering. Inscription in ink to top margin of title-page. Contents clean.

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BABAR'S KINGDOM
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 1328363
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1970. Almost very good condition.

Little Babar Books 7. Smaller format, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416154808. Old price sticker to rear cover. Some slight scuffing to cover edges. Musty smell to contents.

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