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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Written by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Bessie Pease.
Stock no. 1328508
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1933. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial front cover by G. Micklewright. Cloth spine. 6 pretty colour plates by Bessie Pease with blue pictorial borders. 9.5 x 7.5". Covers are edge worn, grubby and faded. Spine bumped. A few small margin tears. Small piece of corner loss to plate opposite page 49 (just affects margin, not illustration). Small piece of loss to lower corner tip of page 65/7 (again, just affects margin with no loss of text). Contents are browned but clean.

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THE NOW-A-DAYS FAIRY BOOK
Written by Anna Alice Chapin. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1325994
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1933. Good condition.

6 beautiful colour plates. Pictorial boards, blue cloth spine. Large format. Front cover shows two children, one asleep by a sundial. Covers are edge worn and scuffed. Rear cover is grubby. Spine is bumped and rubbed at top and tail. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Beauty and the Beast plate has ragged edges and a tape repair on verso. There is colouring to the small b/w illustration on the title-page. Foxing, fingering and some margin tears to contents.

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LITTLE DWARF NOSE
Written by E. Gordon Browne. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson.
Stock no. 2136461
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, pictorial front board. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Bumping and a little fading to cover edges. Numbers in ink and some browning/foxing to front endpaper. Pages are browning; some foxing.

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LITTLE DWARF NOSE
Written by E. Gordon Browne. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson.
Stock no. 2130779
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1935. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial front board. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine is faded. Marks to covers. Small patches of surface paper on cover are missing. Inscription to prelims - partially erased. Binding is weak. Foxing. Page browning.

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ADVENTURES IN MAGIC LAND AND OTHER TALES
Written by Dorothy Black. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson.
Stock no. 1817583
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Good condition.

Burgundy cloth spine. Red pictorial front board. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Cloth spine faded and marked. Boards rubbed at edges and grubby. Frontis glue to front pastedown. Some neat colouring. Contents browned and a few foxspots present.

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THE BUTTON ELVES
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 2128865
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1948. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w illustrations to text. 62 pages. Bottom 1-2" of spine are missing. Creasing and some chipping to cover edges. Brown stains to page edges of some pages to rear.

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ANIMALS AT HOME
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 2128863
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1950. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. New edition. Old Thatch Series. Staples have rusted, so a few brown spots are showing through to front cover. Some creasing to corners. The odd grubby margin mark.

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BRER RABBIT AND HIS FRIENDS
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Oxley.
Stock no. 2128862
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1948. Good condition.

New Edition of the Old Thatch Series No. 5 (contents are Old Thatch series No. 9). Large format. Pictorial paperwraps (cover illustration by Mary Smith). 62 pages. Full-page b/w illustrations. Bottom 2-3" of spine are chipped and mostly missing. Top 1" of spine is chipped. Creasing to covers and pages; some foxing and browning.

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ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN
Written by Sara Hawks Sterling. Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright.
Stock no. 1815999
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial front board. 4 colour plates. 118 pages. Spine worn with 2" split to lower front edge and 0.5" split to top front edge. Edges rubbed, corners worn exposing boards. Front board is scuffed. A few scattered foxspots, mainly to prelims and text block. Inscription in ink to half-title page. A few margin marks. All plates present.

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MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1505406
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

A nice collection of the traditional nursery fairy tales with 16 full page colour illustrations and b/w sketches throughout. Cloth spine. Colour pictorial cover. 74 pages. 11.5 x 9". Circa 1930s. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Wear to edge of onlay. Rear cover slightly browned and grubby with small amount of faint pencil writing. Endpapers browned. A couple of hinges cracked. Light foxing throughout otherwise contents clean. All plates present, tear to edge of one just touches margin of illustration, nicks to top edge of another.

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LITTLE DWARF NOSE
Written by E. Gordon Browne. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson.
Stock no. 1315413
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. circa 1937. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial front board. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and cover edges rubbed. Rear cover is a little grubby. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Page browning throughout. Some colour to the b/w illustrations.

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MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Mary Smith.
Stock no. 1502891
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine with pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers. Full page illustrations by Mary Smith. Two colour plates plus b/w and two-tone text illustrations. 76 pages. Spine, corners and cover edges bumped and worn. Spine grubby. Pen mark to rear endpaper. Light page browning, contents generally clean.

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