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THE GIRLS OF DORMITORY TEN
Written by Betty Laws. Illustrated by P.B. Hickling.
Stock no. 1205959
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1931. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

An enthralling story that every girl will enjoy. Grey cloth with blue decorations and titles. B/w frontis. 184 pages. New edition. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Spine lightly browned. Pictorial wrapper torn with 1 inch loss along lower edge of front panel and other areas of loss.

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A FAIRY GARLAND
Written by Charles Perrault; Madame D'Aulnoy; et al. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1304202
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1928. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Being nine Fairy Tales from the Old French. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. 12 superb colour plates throughout. 251 pages. 9.5 x 7". Spine bumped and slightly worn. Slight rubbing to corners. Very pale page browning to endpapers. Foxing to prelims and page edges. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some slight loss, spine slightly browned and lower 2" of front flap torn off. A nice copy in very scarce dustwrapper.

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THE TESTING OF THE TORMENT
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by P.B. Hickling.
Stock no. 1103039
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. Circa 1927. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The second in the 'Torment' trilogy. Grey decorated cloth, oval pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour frontis and 3 b/w plates. 214 pages. Information of reprint date on copyright page has been carefully erased, leaving impression that it is a 1st edition. Wrapper is torn with loss to top and tail of spine and corners of front panel.

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A FAIRY GARLAND
Written by Charles Perrault; Madame D'Aulnoy; et al. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 806195
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Being nine Fairy Tales from the Old French. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. 12 superb colour plates throughout. 251 pages. 9.5 x 7". Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Browning to spine, with a little fraying/chipping to cloth to top and tail. Some browning marks/scuff marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to outer page edges, endpapers, title pages and a few page margins internally. All colour illustrations are present and bright.

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JUNGLE BABIES
Written by Edyth Kaigh-Eustace. Illustrated by Paul Bransom; Don Nelson.
Stock no. 739794
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1932. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, orange titles to front cover and spine. Pictorial endpapers. 4 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 255 pages. Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby and warped. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Some light fingering to page margins else contents clean.

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SMUGGLER'S WAY
Written by Dorothea Moore. Illustrated by H.M. Brock.
Stock no. 427365
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1928. Almost very good condition.

Cassell's Popular Library for Boys and Girls series. Blue pictorial cloth. B/w frontis. 215 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers a bit marked. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers and prelims and last few pages of book and outer page edges. Rest of contents are generally clean.

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THE JUNGLE SCHOOL OR DR. JIBBER-JABBER BURCHALL'S ACADEMY
Written by S.H. Hamer. Illustrated by Harry Neilson.
Stock no. 710177
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1900. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Corners worn. Boards grubby. Bottom board edges a little scuffed. Contents browned at edges. One plate detached with slight creasing at margins. Front joint beginning to crack. Couple of hinges cracked.

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