LEGENDARY BALLADS
Written by Frank Sidgwick. Illustrated by Byam Shaw.
Stock no. 2125318
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1911. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt title to spine; blind title to front cover. A nice selection of verses with colour plates to contents. Includes Robin Hood. Red stain to rear cover and along edge of back of spine. Lighter stain to front cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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WHERE'S MY BABY?
Written by H.A. Rey. Illustrated by H.A. Rey.
Stock no. 2125250
Published by Chatto & Windus; Jarrold & Sons. Circa 1950. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial boards, spiral bound. Large open-out colour illustrations with small paragraph of text opposite. A lovely learning book for children. Scuffing and wear to corners and edges of covers. A few marks also to covers. Light foxing to some pages. Illustrations are still lovely and bright.

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1814763
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 125 pages. Top edge gilt. Boards a little marked but gilt to front still bright. Cloth backstrip has been re-glued directly to spine, loss to top & tail, touched up with blue ink to sides. Rear hinge pulled. A few marks to contents. A few scattered foxspots. One plate has a corner crease.

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SIMPLE SIMON
Written by Helen Reid Cross.
Stock no. 1609538
Published by Chatto & Windus. 2nd Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Small format. Orange illustrated boards, black titles. Some fading to spine and board edges. Browning to endpapers. Wrapper is foxed, torn and chipped with loss.

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SPOTTY
Written by Margret Rey. Illustrated by H.A. Rey.
Stock no. 1813606
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1972. Very good condition.

Spotty is a rabbit. Cream cloth spine, blue pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0701102039. Boards scuffed. Faint grease stain to front board. A few marks to contents but illustrations nice and bright.

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1506917
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 125 pages. Top edge gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine browned with a few white marks. A few marks to covers. Front joint cracked. Pen inscription to verso of front endpaper and school plate to front pastedown. 4" tear to page 115/6 and tear to top edge of 117/8, both repaired with clear tape which is now yellowed. Endpapers browned. Some foxing to text block and page edges.

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BALLADS AND LYRICS OF LOVE
Written by Frank Sidgwick. Illustrated by Byam Shaw.
Stock no. 1406389
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Slightly better than good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover. Introduction by Sidgwick. Top edge gilt, other edges are untrimmed. 10 colour plates. 178 pages. 9.5 x 6.75". Spine and corners bumped and worn with some fraying of cloth. Spine browned and gilt dulled. Couple of small indents on front cover. Covers unevenly faded and a little grubby. Some hinges are cracked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers and page edges browned. Couple of creases to rear endpaper. A little foxing and fingering.

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1404868
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 125 pages. Top edge gilt. Spine bumped and browned. Cloth split at top. Corners bumped and worn. Top of boards browned. Inscription in ink to prelim. Endpapers browned. Stitching to top of one gathering of pages undone. Some foxing and light fingering otherwise contents generally clean.

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THE GREATER ABBEYS OF ENGLAND
Written by Abbot Gasquet. Illustrated by Warwick Goble.
Stock no. 2116754
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth covers. Gilt decorative and text. A fascinating insight into the English monastic life exquisitely illustrated in colour. Top edge gilt. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to spine, with a couple of chips to cloth at top. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some foxing. A few page edges have tears, with a bit of loss, where at one time pages were uncut and they have not been cut neatly.

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ANOTHER KIND OF MAGIC
Written by Mollie Harris. Illustrated by John Ward; John Sergeant.
Stock no. 1713398
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Journeys on foot or bicycle over the hills and in the Cotswold villages. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0701117656. SIGNED by Illustrator 'John Sergeant' with a dedication to front endpaper. Wrapper spine faded and a little grubby.

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THE DREAM DRAGON
Written by Patricia Drew. Illustrated by Patricia Drew.
Stock no. 1810296
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

The dream dragon goes off in search of a friend. Oblong format. Glazed boards. Two-tone illustrations. ISBN: 0701150866. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean.

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CHILDHOOD
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 2114719
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, gilt title. Blue boards with gilt title and vignette to front. Colour plates. B/w illustrations to text. A book of poems. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some scuffing to corners. Chipping to cloth at top and tail of spine. Uneven fading to cover edges. Foxing and some grubby margin marks throughout. Stitching is pulled in a few places.

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