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LITTLE FOLKS VOL 25
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain; et al..
Stock no. 1311173
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1887. Almost very good condition.

A Magazine for the Young, new and enlarged series. Cloth spine, pictorial boards with front showing face of little girl in circle to centre surrounded by roses. First story ""Bunty and the Boys". Colour frontis and one other colour plate, b/w illustrations throughout. Binding has been professionally repaired/reinforced with possible new spine and tape to joints (matches yellow paper of endpapers). Foxing and grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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LITTLE FOLKS 1918
Written by Anne Dickson; et al. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson; Ernest A. Aris; Harry Rountree.
Stock no. 2109574
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1918. Very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour plates. First story 'In sound of the Guns by Anne Dicks' Endpapers creased. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Covers mottled and scuffed.

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THE QUEST OF THE SLEUTH PATROL
Written by Vera Marshall. Illustrated by Frank Insall.
Stock no. 2105344
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1931. Very good condition.

Pale grey covers with dark blue titles. 4 plates in colour and b/w. Spine and corners are bumped. Grubby marks to covers. Prize plate to front pastedown. Some foxing.

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WHYS AND OTHER WHYS OR CURIOUS CREATURES AND THEIR TALES
Written by Harry B. Neilson; S.H. Hamer. Illustrated by Harry Neilson.
Stock no. 384774
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1898. Very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. 109 pages, all edges gilt. Full-page and text illustrations in b/w throughout. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Covers just a little bit grubby. Front joint cracked. Some very slight fingering to page margins. A tiny nick to edge of rear pastedown. A lovely copy of this attractive book.

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THE MYSTERY AT SHONCLIFF SCHOOL
No author listed. Illustrated by W.S. Stacey.
Stock no. 820608
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1894. Good condition.

By the author of Mr Burke's Nieces, Daisy's Dilemmas, etc. Grey cloth boards with green vignettes, green title block with gil ttitles. 4 b/w plates. This story originally appeared in Little Folks Magazine. Boards grubby and worn at corners, spine has some fraying to cloth. Bookplate to front pastedown. List of illustrations almost detached from centre section. Staple binding is rusty. A few grubby marks to contents.

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LASSIE COME-HOME
Written by Eric Knight. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse.
Stock no. 596707
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1941. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Lassie, the prize dog of a cottager's household is sold to a wealthy family when hard times befall her original owners. Taken hundreds of miles away, she does what many collies have done before her, she starts for home so that she can be faithful to a duty - that of meeting a boy by a schoolhouse gate. Brown cloth, dark brown title to spine. B/w illustrations, colour frontis. Endpapers are maps of England and Scotland. Front joint split exposing mull holding cover to book. Minor foxing to outer page edges else contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is worn, chipped at edges and torn with brown tape repair to verso.

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IN THE HEART OF AFRICA
Written by Adolphus Frederick.
Stock no. 559232
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1910. Almost very good condition.

Orange cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w photos. 2 folding maps. All plates and maps present. Name in ink to front endpaper. Contents very but spine faded. Covers a little marked and corners rubbed. A decent copy of this scarce book.

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MY FAVOURITE
No author listed. Illustrated by Percy Holland; Victor Prout; et al..
Stock no. 623492
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. Circa 1906. Almost very good condition.

Stories for Little People. Blue cloth spine, pictorial front board shows two young girls huddled under brolly on ferry crossing in snow scene. B/w & two-tone illustrations. Corners worn, covers grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few small margin marks.

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DULCE DOMUM RHYMES AND SONGS FOR CHILDREN (OLD & NEW)
Written by John Farmer.
Stock no. 803517
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. Circa 1893. Very good condition.

Maroon cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Contains 134 rhymes and songs for children, including the score music and verse that now may be forgotten! Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers a little scuffed and rear cover has a grubby 'splash' mark. Name in ink to front pastedown. Front joint a little cracked. Endpapers are browned, but rest of contents lovely and clean, apart from very occasional margin mark.

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JUNGLE BABIES
Written by Edyth Kaigh-Eustace. Illustrated by Paul Bransom; Don Nelson.
Stock no. 690369
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1932. Good condition.

Blue cloth, yellow titles. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Foxing throughout mainly to early pages. Bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Spine faded.

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THE CARIBBEAN CONFEDERATION
Written by C.S. Salmon.
Stock no. 988464
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1888. Very good condition.

A Plan for the Union of the Fifteen British West Indian Colonies. Pages: 175. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Folding coloured map. Royal Statistical Society stamps to verso of map and title page. Contents very good indeed.

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