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THE MABINOGION
Written by Sarla Mehta. Illustrated by Sarah Hopkins.
Stock no. 2121786
Published by Langdon Publishing. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. From Merlin's Box of the First branch of The Mabinogion. Comic book/story board style. ISBN: 1871887046.

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ISLAND NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Stock no. 1505925
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Nelson's Classics in Leather series. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp and The Isle of Voices. Green leather soft covers, gilt titles and circular vignette. Small format 6.25 x 4.25". Top edge gilt. B/w frontis. 281 pages plus book lists. Wear to ends of darkened spine with slight loss to top edge. Corner tip of rear cover missing. Faint light marks to covers. Name in pencil to prelims. Contents very good. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with a little loss from ends of spine. Panels grubby, spine darkened.

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QUALITY STREET
Written by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 1505881
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Comedy in Four Acts. Large format. Elaborately decorated blue/lilac cloth covers, large gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Illustrated endpapers. 22 beautiful tissue-guarded colour plates and b/w text illustrations.198 pages. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Faint stain, only visible at certain angles, to spine edges of rear and front cover. Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown. Foxing and light browning to endpapers. Contents very good just an odd margin tear and fox spot. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with tears to ends of spine. Creasing to folds and sides of spine. Browning to spine and unevenly to rear panel. Browning and pink stains to verso corresponding with faint stains on covers.

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ROB LINDSAY AND HIS SCHOOL
Written by H.C. Preston MacGoun. Illustrated by Preston MacGoun.
Stock no. 1405214
Published by William J. Hay; Samuel Baxter's & Sons. 1905. Almost very good condition.

A Reminiscence of Seventy-Five Years Ago. Grey/buff pictorial boards, cream spine. Described as 'A simple chapter in the homelier life of Scotland'. 45 pages. 7 x 5.75". Lovely b/w illustrations. Spine bumped, browned and worn with 3"split to one side. Small part of backstrip is missing. Corners worn. Covers grubby. Couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers browned. Some foxing to page edges. Page edges uncut.

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FISH AND CHIPS
Written by A.G. Street.
Stock no. 2120916
Published by Robert Hale. 1st 1964. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. A few faint marks to edge of textblock. Wrapper has small closed tear to top of spine and is very slightly faded to spine, lightly browned to rear and slightly creased at top edge of rear panel.

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THE HONOURABLE MR TAWNISH
Written by Jeffery Farnol. Illustrated by C.E. Brock.
Stock no. 1405018
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1913. Almost very good condition.

A Romance. Beige cloth covers with gilt titles and border decorations, small circular onlay to centre of front cover. 8 colour plates. 118 pages. A little bumping to spine and corners. Couple of small marks to cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned. A few hinges slightly cracked. One illustration is detached. Foxing throughout especially heavy to prelims and last few pages.

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MR BIDDLE AND THE DRAGON
Written by Edith Farmiloe. Illustrated by Edith Farmiloe.
Stock no. 1315550
Published by Skeffington & Son. 1st 1904. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth with white title and black illustration to front cover. 47 pages. Full-page b/w illustrations throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Front cover has splash marks to it. Endpapers browned and some slight foxing otherwise contents clean.

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ON THE LINE
Written by Dell Leigh. Illustrated by Frank H. Mason; Freda Lingstrom.
Stock no. 2119989
Published by Richard Clay & Sons Ltd.. Circa 1928. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Orange cloth with white title onlays to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is torn and chipped, with a few pieces of loss; foxed and grubby.

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THE BLINDED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS GIFT BOOK
Written by George Goodchild; et al. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson; C.E. Brock; W. Heath Robinson; et al..
Stock no. 1404945
Published by Jarrold & Sons. Almost very good condition.

Compiled by G. Goodchild, stories by John Galsworthy, G.K. Chesterton, Mrs. E. Nesbit, H.G. Wells and many others. Beige decorated cloth, brown titles. Colour frontis by Hugh Thomson 'The Blinded Soldier' tipped in. B/w and colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some bumping to cover edges. Covers are grubby and marked. Both joints are slightly cracked. Foxing to page edges and margins and some fingering but many pages are clean.

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COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE
Written by Charles Bullock.
Stock no. 1505210
Published by Home Words Publishing Office. Very good condition.

Sidelights of Home Life. Tenth Thousand edition. Green cloth covers with red vignette and gilt titles. Bevelled edges. B/w illustrations. 74 pages plus publication list. Spine bumped and worn, slight wear to corners. Spine and covers alongside are very browned. Covers slightly grubby. Front joint and a couple of hinges cracked. Contents clean but some light foxing.

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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Written by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by J. Finnemore; F.L. Emmanuel.
Stock no. 1404571
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. circa 1918. Almost very good condition.

Brown boards with gilt title and vignette to front. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Patterned endpapers. 110 pages. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Front board edge a little rubbed. Browning to endpapers and prelims. Name and date to flyleaf. Browning and some foxing to some pages else contents are generally clean.

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THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKYRIE
Written by Richard Wagner; Margaret Armour. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 2118149
Published by William Heinemann. 1920. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Trade edition. Brown cloth. Gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. Cream and orange pictorial endpapers. Part of the trilogy of 'The Ring of the Niblung'. With a prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. 34 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, covered with captioned tissue-guards. Text in a play format. Some wear to spine and corners. Browning to endpapers and outer page edges; a little foxing. Wrapper is worn and scuffed along edges; creased with some tears and chips; a little loss to top of spine. Some marks to wrapper.

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