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VICTOR HUGO'S THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Written by Victor Hugo.
Stock no. 585681
Published by Grandreams Limited. 1996. Nearly fine condition.

Pop-up Storybook. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. 6 pop-up scenes. ISBN: 1858303699. 2 sticker marks to front boards. All pop-ups in working order, some creasing to a couple of pop-ups.

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IB AND CHRISTINA
Written by Hans Christian Andersen.
Stock no. 734482
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Very good condition.

No 4. in this series (Andersen's Fairy Tales). Pictorial boards, slim format. Unpaginated. 2 colour plates (chromolithographs), 2 b/w woodcut illustrations. Spine slightly rubbed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to page margins. A couple of small marginal tears.

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DICK WHITTINGTON OR TOMMY IN FAIRYLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 428671
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Good condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board. Nelson's Picture Books In Coloured Boards Series. Colour plates. Endpapers are possibly missing (?) - looks to be rebound, with a couple of plates pasted to pastedowns. Contents have grubby marks to them. Prize plate to verso of title page. A reading copy only.

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THE KINGS AND THE CATS
Written by John Hannon. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 577484
Published by Burns & Oates. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

Munster Fairy Tales For Young And Old. 3 stories. Green cloth, gilt title and border. Attractive b/w plates, some cats but not in Wain's usual anthropomorphic style. xiii + 78 pages. REDUCED FROM £420. A few light marks to covers. Top and tail of spine lightly rubbed. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing throughout. A must for the Wain completist.

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CLASSICS ONE
Written by Al Crabbie. Illustrated by Lukas Kelly; Denham Kelly.
Stock no. 426511
Published by The Fairytale Company. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition.

Adapted Hans Christian Andersen fairytales. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Compact disc that follows the 'play' form of text in the book. Contains 'Jack the Dullard', 'The Tinderbox' and 'The Swineherd'. ISBN: 0954787404. Spine and corners very lightly bumped. Compact audio disc still present inside plastic case inside front of book.

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ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON & THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Written by S. Lyle Cummins. Illustrated by G.L. Stampa.
Stock no. 573817
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1922. Slightly better than very good condition.

Small format. Grey boards. Colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 2 plays for children. Book: book plate to front endpaper. Spine browned. A lovely little book.

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PEEK-A-BOO POP-UP FAIRY TALES
Written by Keith Faulkner. Illustrated by Jonathan Lambert.
Stock no. 674194
Published by Chad Valley Books. 1st 1991. Very good condition.

8.75 x 11.25 ins. Glazed pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Very colourful pop-up story book. ISBN: 1855650800. Corners slightly bumped. A couple of foxspots to title page and front pastedown.

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MY FAVOURITE NURSERY STORIES
Written by Constance Wickham. Illustrated by V.G. Messenger.
Stock no. 661887
Published by Sandle Brothers Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Small square format. Pictorial paperboards. Full-page brightly coloured illustrations. Top and tail of spine worn with very slight loss. Corners rubbed. Name in ink to front pastedown. Pictorial wrapper has been backed with white paper, with loss to spine and edges and no front-flap.

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BO-BELL QUINN
Written by Jennie A. Oliver. Illustrated by Cora E.M. Paterson.
Stock no. 568062
Published by Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd.. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A tale about some pixies who lived in Smokey City and their journey to Cornwall, the place where pixies first came from, to become Cornish Pixies at last! Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0722313942. Large inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial wrapper.

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EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON
No author listed. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
Stock no. 691590
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1915. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt vignette to front cover. 24 superb tipped-in colour plates. A collection of stories which originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's "Popular Tales from the Norse". Spine slightly bumped, corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Spine slightly cocked. Foxing to endpapers and prelims. Contents bright and clean. An early reprint of this beautiful, scarce book.

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PUSS IN BOOTS: THE STORY OF A SNEAKY CAT
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 802876
Published by Delacorte Press. 1ST THUS 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0440071577. Ink mark to front endpaper. Library edition sticker to wrapper.

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RUMPELSTILZCHEN
No author listed. Illustrated by Brunhild Schlotter.
Stock no. 568935
Published by Scholz Mainz. Very good condition.

Brown cloth spine, white pictorial front board. Colour & b/w illustrations. Text in German. Boards grubby.

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