SARAH'S ROOM
Written by Doris Orgel. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2140113
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A pocket-sized picture book with delicate drawings by Sendak and rhyming text. Yellow pictorial boards. ISBN: 0370011384. Bookplate to front pastedown. Wrapper is faded and worn to spine; large stain to front panel and front flap; some white tape repairs to verso.

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TITUS IN TROUBLE
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1322237
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1959. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial paper boards with yellow spine. Colour illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Covers are edge worn and slightly foxed, small splits to top and tail of spine. Some foxing to contents.

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MERCENARIES AND THEIR MASTERS: WARFARE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
Written by Michael Mallett.
Stock no. 1822242
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Concentrating mainly on fifteenth century, a period when standing armies emerged in Italy and when the 'modern' trends were just as discernible here as elsewhere in Europe. Also looking back to the middle ages and the fourteenth century and then forward to the Italian Wars (1494-1530) when foreign armies disputed the European balance of power on Italian soil. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0370105028. Large bookplate to front pastedown. Top edge of text block lightly faded. Contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is browned to spine and top edge, slightly grubby.

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THE STORY ABOUT PING
Written by Marjorie Flack. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
Stock no. 1321539
Published by The Bodley Head. 1954. Almost very good condition.

Ping is a beautiful young duck who lives on a boat on the Yangtze river. Blue pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some grubby marks to covers. Light foxing to contents. Stitching pulled causing contents to be a little loose but still attached to covers.

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THE LITTLE TRAIN
Written by Graham Greene. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 2134786
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st thus 1973. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A beautiful book! Pictorial boards, Colour illustrations throughout. Oblong format, 7.25 x 9.5". ISBN: 0370020200. Light bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Page edge browning. Wrapper is browned, with fading to spine; creased at edges and corners; a few closed tears, but virtually no loss.

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BILL BADGER AND THE PINE MARTENS
Written by David Severn. Illustrated by Geoffrey Higham.
Stock no. 1319037
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Small format. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Covers edge rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned. Light foxing and fingering to contents but generally clean. Price-cut wrapper is browned and chipped with loss, also edge rubbed.

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HECTOR PROTECTOR AND AS I WENT OVER THE WATER
Written by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1318026
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Two nonsense nursery rhymes wonderfully illustrated by full-page colour pictures. Oblong format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0370007743. Spine bumped. Light page browning throughout. There is a small damp mark to textblock (but it doens't affect the actual pages). Dustwrapper is lightly browned and is grubby and edge rubbed.

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THE MYSTERY OF THE WOODEN LEGS
Written by Griselda Gifford. Illustrated by Barry Wilkinson.
Stock no. 2130664
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1964. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

All Sue could see from the basement flat were the legs and feet of the people walking past. One morning Sue saw something very odd. Two sticks were walking along the pavement followed by four furry paws, the wheels of a tricycle, two small feet in dirty sandals and a rope which twitched. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine and acorn vignette to front. B/w illustrations. 96 pages. Foxing to outer page edges. Light wear to wrapper edges.

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JONADAB AND RITA
Written by Shirley Hughes. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes.
Stock no. 2128540
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 2008. Fine condition.

Toy donkey Jonadab is longing for adventure... Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780370329284. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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TIM'S LAST VOYAGE
Written by Edward Ardizzone. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 2128454
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Water-colour and b/w line drawings, many double spread. Pink and green pictorial boards. ISBN: 0370020030. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to prelims. Wrapper is edge-creased with some chips and nicks.

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THE LITTLE STEAMROLLER
Written by Graham Greene. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1317584
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format, pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. ISBN: 0370020235. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Small split to centre of spine (2.5cm). Inscripiton in ink to front free-endpaper. Pale page browning to endpapers. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with tear to centre of spine and a few light grubby marks to front panel.

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FLUTES AND CYMBALS
Written by Leonard Clark. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes.
Stock no. 2127665
Published by The Bodley Head. 1973. Very good condition.

Poetry for the young. Large format. Orange pictorial boards. 103 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0370010906. Bumping to a couple of corners and cover edges. Name in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning.

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