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SONGS FOR YOUTH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Leo Bates.
Stock no. 720827
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1924. Very good condition.

From collected verse by Kipling. Red cloth, black titles. 243 pages. 8 tipped-in colour plates. Spine slightly bumped and faded. Foxing to outer page edges. Endpapers browned. Some slight surface paper damage to front pastedown.

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AN OCEAN OUTLAW
Written by Hugh St Leger.
Stock no. 721366
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1935. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Adventures in the Good Ship Margaret. Red cloth, black titles and decorative borders. B/w frontis. The Peak Library series. Spine slightly bumped. Inscription in ink and small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Contents and covers clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a couple of closed edge-tears, is slightly grubby to rear and the spine is faded.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE BOOK No. 32 - SPRING ADVENTURES
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 721370
Published by Daily Express. Almost very good condition.

Rupert Spring Adventures. Contains Rupert And The Rope Trick and Rupert And The Lonely Cottage. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations. Covers slightly creased and foxed. Small split to base of spine. Name in pencil inside front cover. Light foxing and fingering to page margins.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 29 - RUPERT AND THE GIANT'S CASTLE
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 721372
Published by Daily Express. Very good condition.

Title story Rupert And The Giant's Castle. Also includes Rupert And The Whirlwinds. Pictorial card wraps. Covers foxed. Small split to base of spine repaired inside with clear tape. Some slight colouring to Rupert's Slate Puzzle. Foxing to contents else clean.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 24 - RUPERT AND THE BIRTHDAY SURPRISE
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 721373
Published by Daily Express. Very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. Also includes story 'Rupert and The Crooked Jug'. 22 pages. Colour illustrations. Small splits to top and tail of spine. Rear cover foxed. Light foxing and fingering to page margins.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 31 - RUPERT AND THE SNOW PRANKS
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 721380
Published by Daily Express. Almost very good condition.

Title Story Rupert And The Snow Pranks. Also includes Rupert And The Shy Coconut. 9.5x7". Pictorial card wraps. Covers foxed. Pencil name on rear cover partially erased. Light fingering and foxing to page margins.

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THE FROWNING PRINCE
Written by Crockett Johnson. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson.
Stock no. 721607
Published by Harper & Bros. Circa 1960. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The prince with the immoveable frown meets the princess with the irresistable smile...Grey cloth spine, red pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Corners worn, edges rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge-worn and grubby with loss at top and tail of spine.

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YOUNG MOHAMED
Written by E. Gordon Savage. Illustrated by J. Abbey.
Stock no. 721685
Published by Noel Carrington. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, black titles. B/w illustrations. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Pale page browning. Pictorial dustwrapper has small tear to top of spine and slightl loss at base.

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KATE GREENAWAY PICTURES
Written by H.M. Cundall. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 721714
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1921. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

From Originals Presented By Her to John Ruskin and Other Personal Friends (Hitherto Unpublished) With an Appreciation by Cundall. Large format. Cream cloth spine with green title, green cloth covers with gilt title to front. Mounted colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Light rubbed patch to edge of front cover. Light foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is edge-worn and grubby with some loss at spine and pink watermark to front. A nice copy of a rare book, scarce in wrapper.

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DICK GERRY AND MIRANDA
Written by Honora Elizabeth Thompson. Illustrated by Diana Read.
Stock no. 721842
Published by Elliot Stock. 1st 1910. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles. B/w plates and text illustrations. Spine browned and slightly worn. Faint dampstain to top front corner. Light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Inscribed "Hilda Palloxfen from the author, Christmas 1920" on front endpaper.

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TEDDY BEAR FUN
No author listed. Illustrated by Justin Michman.
Stock no. 721885
Published by Collins. Almost very good condition.

Collins Rainbow Colour Books. Large format. Colour pictorial boards. Delightful colour illustrations of Teddies, Gollies and other cute animals. Spine and corners worn, edges rubbed. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some light fingering to page margins but contents generally bright and clean.

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THE MANILA MENFISH
Written by Frank Crisp.
Stock no. 721913
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1956. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Dirk Rogers adventure, the crew of the Sulawesi pick up the body of a diver who has been shot dead with an arrow through his heart. Red boards, black title. Colour frontis. Spine bumped. A few foxspots to outer page edges. Pictorial wrapper is rubbed and slightly grubby to rear, very slight loss to top and tail of spine.

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