THE RUNAWAY
Written by Dorothy Clewes. Illustrated by Peggy Beetles.
Stock no. 1316530
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Penny did not want to move so she ran away. Antelope Book. Yellow boards with green titles and vignette. B/w illustrations. 94 pages. SIGNED by the author to front free-endpaper (dedication to Judy). Spine and corners bumped. Some foxing, mainly to textblock. Dustwrapper is faded to spine with some foxing.

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THE GRATEFUL SPARROW AND OTHER TALES
Written by Angela Thirkell. Illustrated by Ludwig Richter.
Stock no. 1813881
Published by Hamish Hamilton. Circa 1935. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Five German tales put into English by Thirkell. Red spine with silver title, pictorial paper boards. 24 full-page colour illustrations. 87 pages. Boards slightly damp stained and rubbed to top and tail. Endpapers lightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at edges with slight loss and a few closed tears, browned to rear panel, grubby to front panel.

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NOAH'S ARK
Written by Jasper Dimond. Illustrated by Jasper Dimond.
Stock no. 1313650
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

A book and press-out model. Large oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0241109663. Spine and corners slightly bumped. The book originally came in a slipcase but this is missing. Contents are fine and unused.

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THE PATH OF GOLD
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Krystyna Turska.
Stock no. 1502589
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The sick King needs the Water of Life to restore him to full health but which of his three sons will find the water first. Taken from the Grimm tale, The Water of Life, this fresh and lucid retelling has all the ingredients of a classic fairy tale. Grey boards with blue titles to spine. B/w Illustrations. 104 pages. ISBN: 0241021545. Light bumping to spine. A little foxing to text block. Dustwrapper has closed tear to front panel, is a little edge worn and original price has been crossed out on front flap.

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THE GIPSY CHILDREN
Written by Christine Pullein-Thompson. Illustrated by Janet Duchesne.
Stock no. 1402424
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1962. Slightly better than good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of Ana and Georgie, gipsy children and their adventures after they crept away from their family one moonlit night on an errand of mercy. Pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. A Reindeer book. 112 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Board edges a little browned. Front endpaper creased. Library stamp to rear endpaper. Some hinges are cracked. A few small tears to bottom of pages. Foxing and some grubby marks to cntents. Pictorial wrapper is edge worn and chipped. Spine is faded. A little browning to edges and verso. A couple of grubby marks.

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THE PICNIC
Written by Charles Molin; William Mayne. Illustrated by Leslie Wood.
Stock no. 1402365
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1966. Very good condition.

Dormouse Tales series. Oblong format. Blue pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Molin is the pseudonym of William Mayne. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. A little scuffing to board edges. Staples are rusty. Some foxing and page browning otherwise contents generally clean.

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ABOUT WISE MEN AND SIMPLETONS
Written by Brothers Grimm; Elizabeth Shub. Illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian.
Stock no. 1207887
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1971. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth. Simple b/w line drawings. A Caldecott medal winner. ISBN: 0241022169. Wrapper price-clipped and a little edge-chipped.

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IN LIMBO THE STORY OF STANLEY'S REAR COLUMN
Written by Tony Gould.
Stock no. 2112115
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth. A most interesting study of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887. Illustrated in b/w. ISBN: 0241101255. Bumping to spine. Some page browning and light foxing. Wrapper is faded to spine, with edge-creasing.

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NOTHING TO DO
Written by Diana Ross. Illustrated by Constance Marshall.
Stock no. 1108512
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

One minute there was nothing for the five children to do. The very next instant Billy and Ellen were off to the wood, and Nan was organising 'weddings', with the little ones. A Reindeer Book. B/w illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper has a few small closed tears; grubby marks and small nicks.

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THE FOLK DOLL OF SION
Written by Joan Smith. Illustrated by Prudence Seward.
Stock no. 1310961
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Hamish Hamilton Antelope Book. Orange pictorial boards. 87 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 024102398X. Cover edges very slightly rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just slightly faded to spine and ever so slightly edge creased.

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SHEATHING THE SWORD THE DEMILITARISATION OF JAPAN
Written by Meirion Harries; Susie Harries.
Stock no. 2111159
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1ST 1987. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0241121116. Fading along cover edges. Light creasing to wrapper.

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WANDERING WIND
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1204662
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1961. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Hamish Hamilton Reindeer Book. Yellow boards, blue titles. Blue reindeer vignette to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations. 121 pages. New endpapers. Tapemarks to board edges. Wrapper edge-torn with loss, reinforced at edge and stained.

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