PORTRAIT OF A VILLAGE
Written by Francis Brett Young. Illustrated by Joan Hassall.
Stock no. 2136008
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1937. Very good condition.

Black cloth, gilt titles and vignette. B/w wood engravings. Story of Monks Norton in Worcestershire. Some fading to spine; a few marks to covers. Bumping to corners. Foxing and browning; mostly to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE FOUR GARDENS
Written by Handasyde. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2135794
Published by William Heinemann. 1912. Almost very good condition.

Contains The Haunted Garden, The Old-Fashioned Garden, The Poor Man's Garden and The Rich Man's Garden. Light purple cloth. Gilt titles, vignette to front cover and decorations to spine. 8 colour plates with captioned guards, b/w text illustrations. 160 pages. 2nd impression. Spine is browned. Some marks to covers. Small bookplate to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKYRIE
Written by Richard Wagner; Margaret Armour. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1321098
Published by William Heinemann. 3rd 1912. Very good condition.

Trade edition. Brown cloth. Gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. Cream and orange pictorial endpapers. Part of the trilogy of 'The Ring of the Niblung'. With a prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. 34 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, covered with captioned tissue-guards. Text in a play format. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine slightly faded. A couple of the plates have light corner creases. Light fingermarks to page margins. A nice copy of the third impression published May 1912.

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THE LONDON VENTURE
Written by Michael Arlen.
Stock no. 2133858
Published by William Heinemann. 1924. Almost very good condition.

A novel. The author's first published book. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Rough cut edges to text-block. 141 pages. Spine slightly sunned and worn at top and tail. Corners bumped, lower front corner worn. Small bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. 4 marks on front endpaper where label has been removed. Some tiny spots to prelims and last few pages. Contents lightly browned.

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BACHELORS AND A BACHELOR'S CONFESSIONS
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1319354
Published by William Heinemann. 1909. Good condition.

Small format. Grey boards, colour pictorial onlay to front. 3 tipped-in colour plates. B/w illustrations. Rebacked with matching cloth, new cream endpapers. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Plates fine. Some browning and foxing but contents generally clean.

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JORROCKS ON 'UNTING
Written by R.S. Surtees. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1819571
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Brown boards, with pictorial onlay to front cover. 6.75 x 5.25". B/w text illustrations and 3 tipped-in colour plates. 31 pages. Browning to endpapers. Neat inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Foxing to text block. A few scattered foxspots to contents. All plates present.

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BACHELORS AND A BACHELOR'S CONFESSIONS
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1318755
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Grey boards, colour pictorial onlay to front. 3 tipped-in colour plates. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped. Covers slightly rubbed. Some surface paper loss to the pictorial onlay to front cover. Front joint cracked. Foxing to contents.

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AWAKENING
Written by John Galsworthy. Illustrated by R.H. Sauter.
Stock no. 2132132
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1920. Very good condition.

Brown boards, gilt title & vignette to front, and title to spine. Colour frontis plus numerous b/w and blue two tone illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKYRIE
Written by Richard Wagner; Margaret Armour. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1318101
Published by William Heinemann. 1920. Very good condition.

Brown cloth. Black titles and decorations to spine and front cover. Cream and orange pictorial endpapers. Part of the trilogy of 'The Ring of the Niblung'. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. 34 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, covered with captioned tissue-guards. Text in a play format. Spine and corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Contents are browned (particularly to endpapers and plate mounts (plates themselves still bright). A couple of plates have light corner creases.

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THE HAPPY ANNUAL
Written by Cecil Aldin; John Hassall. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin; John Hassall.
Stock no. 1318020
Published by William Heinemann. 1907. Almost very good condition.

Very large format (14 x 10"). Pictorial paperwraps showing Miss Muffet with cobweb and spider. Colour illustrations throughout. SIGNED by Cecil Aldin on small piece of white paper which has been tipped onto the title-page. Cover edges are slightly worn, splits to spine. There is some loss to the top edge of the rear cover. Some light stains and creases to covers. Some light fingermarks to page margins and some light foxspots but generally contents are clean.

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RIGHT ROYAL
Written by John Masefield. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1318013
Published by William Heinemann. 1st thus 1922. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth, gilt titles and horsehead vignette to front. 4 tipped-in colour plates. A horse-racing poem. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Browning to endpapers, light foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some slight chipping with loss and a grubby mark with some slight surface paper damage to author's name on front panel.

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MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 2130776
Published by William Heinemann. 1st thus 1994. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Dark blue boards, silver title to spine and very small vignette to front board. Green endpapers. 6 double-sided colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations to text. 153 pages. ISBN: 0434958581. Bumping to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Wrapper is edge-creased with a couple of nicks; closed tear to top edge of front panel.

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