Familiar Rhymes From Mother Goose with new pictures by Chester Loomis: London, Ernest Nister, 1888.  10.25 inches tall by 10 inches wide. Original paper covered boards decorated with flower motifs, titles and mother goose’s head.  Title on upper board is Familiar Selections from the rhymes of Mother Goose with new pictures by Chester Loomis, brown cloth spine. Pale blue endpapers, 48 pages, colour illustrations throughout. Book is Very Good, slight soiling to boards, rubs to edges and corners, all hinges sound with no splits. Spine intact with no fraying tearing or snagging. Internally tight and reasonable clean, no names, no inscriptions, no crayoning, no scribbling. Remarkable condition for a child’s book over 100 years old. Very scarce edition.

Ref 18940:   £200.00

Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes; Illustrated by Kate Greenaway : London: George Routledge and Sons, [n.d., 1881]. First edition, second issue. 6.75in x 5in. 48 pages with coloured illustrations on each page. Original pink cloth spine, cream cloth boards with central panel on both boards with olive-green lattice background and maroon title with upside-down 'G' in 'Goose'. The second issue has "Contents of this Book" on verso of front endpaper; Colophon of Edmund Evans on recto of rear endpaper; "bush" in last line of p. 18; page number right side up on p. 38; "boys" in last line of p. 47; and no defective letters in the last line of p. 6; in the first line of p. 27 the word mine without dot on the i,  'm' upside down on p.25. Covers  browned and spotted, gift inscription dated Xmas 1881 on front pastedown, front and rear pages a little spotted, otherwise fairly clean with occasional spot and a few fingermarks. All outer and inner hinges sound. Beautiful Greenaway illustrations in full colour on every page to accompany the nursery rhyme, still bright and undamaged. Very rare

Ref  19557:   £115.00

There Was Once - Grandma's Stories; Wilde, Mrs. Oscar : London, Ernest Nister, undated, c1888. Printed by Ernest Nister in Nuremberg . Hardcover, 9.25in x 7.25in, pictorial boards depicting Red Riding Hood and Wolf on front, green cloth spine. Unpaginated. The full Ten chromolithographic colour plates by John Lawson, each still with its loose inserted tissue guard, plus other in-text illustrations. Book is in Good+ condition. Rubs and bumps to board corners, spine and outer hinges intact. Inner hinges holding, small crack in front endpaper and front inner hinge weakening very slightly. Internally binding pulling at a couple of places but book holding well with no loose pages or broken stitches. Clean with no foxing and lovely bright plates. Lovely example of Victorian children’s book.

Ref  19558:  £95.00

Zig Zag Fables ; Shepherd J.A. : London, Gardner, Darton & Co., [1897], First Edition. Hard back binding in publisher"s original illustrated paper covers, green cloth spine. Landscape format 8.5 (tall) x 11 inches. unpaginated. Superb Shepherd coloured illustrations with storyline, 37 plates plus illustrated title page internally, plus Shepherd illustrations front and rear board, 40 plates in total. Some plates contain more than one drawing. Book is firm and tight, rubbing at board corners and edges, small dark stain at top of front board. Pages are toning at margins as is usual with this edition, plates are bright. Endpapers are very bright and may be a more recent addition. Shepherd first made his name with his popular series of Zig Zag Fables published in the The Strand Magazine. In 1893 he joined the staff of Punch Magazine and contributed cartoons for the next forty years. Scarce Victorian child’s picture book and in very nice condition

Ref  101512:   £95.00

Animals And Birds; (Kronheim & Co Illustrations): London, George Routledge, nd (c 1870s). A wonderful child’s book from the 1870s with 24 coloured illustrations of animals and birds. Two have been torn and repaired with clear adhesive tape. Accompanying text. Chapters are “Wild Animals”, “Tame Animals”, “Our Pets” and “Birds” . 7.25in x 5.5in, 44 pages. Paper covered boards, illustrated and glazed, cloth spine. Gift inscription on fep dated 1876. Boards marked and bumped and scuffed. Pages have occasional foxing and marks, some pages are pulling on the stitching but are not loose. A remarkable little book from this period with delightful illustrations and very scarce.

Ref  11571:      £40.00

Jeanne d’Arc : Monvel, M. Boutet de: Paris, Plon-Nourrit 1896. Oblong format hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt and lime green decoration and gilt title. 9.5 (tall) x 12.75 inches (24.5 x 32.5cm). 48pp, superb colour illustrations by the author on every page. Text in French. Printed on heavy glossy paper. It is said this is the book that started the series of beautiful illustrated children’s books that were published in France over the following decade. Book binding is becoming loose, covers have bumps and rubs to corners, spine ends and edges. All pages are present and none are detached, and they are in nice clean, bright condition, but the signatures (page gathers) are pulling at the gutters and opening in places and loose in their stitching. Will not take rough treatment. Still a beautiful children’s book.

Ref  102379 : £35.00               (Also listed under History  and Foreign Books)

THE ROYAL PROGRESS OF KING PEPITO; Cresswell, Beatrice F., Illustrated by Kate Greenaway: London, S.P.C.K., no date [1889], First edition, 210 x 155 mm, 8¼" x 6", cream boards with colour illustration to front cover, advertisement for Mrs Ewing’s books on rear. 48pp, colour frontis and further 11 lovely colour plates by Kate Greenaway. Boards slightly soiled and small bumps and rub-throughs at corners, small bump to top board edge, rubs at spine ends. Boards have slight bow. Inner and outer hinges intact and sound. Internally, no names or inscriptions, browning to endpapers, tight and firm, text pages clean, colour plates bright and clean and undamaged, no child’s colouring or scribbling. Very scarce first edition

Ref  100453:  £55.00

A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO ; Illustrated by Caldecott, Randolph: London, George Routledge & Sons, [c1880]. R. Caldecott's Picture Books series. Oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. 8 (tall) x 9.5 inches, 24pp, 6 fullpage colour plates, line drawings on all other pages together with the verses of the nursery rhyme, front cover has a further full sized colour drawing. The original ‘One Shilling’ book, later republished in combination with others in the series. Very Good condition, very minor cover soiling, minor rubs to spine surface, no cover tears or missing pieces. Internally stitching tight, no tears to pages, foxing spots on title and inside cover and occasional spots throughout. All colour plates bright. A scarce Victorian child’s book, rarely seen in this edition and in this condition.

Ref  101513:  £20.00

Picture Book No. 2 - containing The Three Jovial Huntsmen; The Queen Of Hearts; Sing A Song For Sixpence; The Farmer's Boy. Caldecott, Randolph: London, George Routledge & Sons, nd [c1890].  A collection of English nursery/folk rhymes, beautifully illustrated in colour and monotone throughout by Randolph Caldecott and engraved and printed by E. Evans. Oblong 8vo,  32 full-page colour illustrations, with sepia line drawings throughout. Boards illustrated with drawings in red and black. Boards soiled with slight bumps and rubs to extremities, spine darkened, endpapers browned. Hinges sound, book tight and reasonably clean internally with no page damage  Previous owner was Annabel Farjeon, the author, and her name is on endpaper. Original Binder’s error on one leaf – folded page has slipped out of the signature before stitching leaving the stitching holding the pages but with one out of sequence A copy in better condition than most, all colour illustrations intact and with NO child’s scribbles or colouring in of drawings. 

Ref  15396:  £40.00

The Baby's Opera: A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses The Music By the Earliest Masters; Crane, Walter: London: Frederick Warne and Co, nd, (c1880).  Brown cloth spine with pictorial paper covered boards. 7.25in (tall) x 7.5in, 56 pages. Contains 36 nursery rhymes with music and lyrics. Frontispiece & 10 other full page colour plates and additional charming pictorial borders & vignettes on each page engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Wear to boards at corners & edges. Spine head and heel show minor wear; Edgewear. Gift inscription on fep dated 1914, Rear endpaper cracking at hinge.  Internally tight and reasonably clean, colours bright on plates and borders. Still a very lovely copy and a charming child’s book from over 100 years ago.

Ref  11915:      £50.00

Filida and Corydon With Other Stories –by A Child For Children: Forwood, Gwendolen: London, J. J. Keliher & Co, 1902. Hardcover, spine cloth with paper covered illustrated boards. 11in x 8.5in, 32 text pages plus 14 full colour plates. Book is Good, rubs around board edges with slight darkening and some soiling, slight bow to boards, gift inscription inside cover, slight spotting to early and last few pages, generally clean internally. Text block is stapled and then bound within boards. Very, very scarce book and we not seen any copies in this condition before.

Ref  19823:  150.00

A Happy Load; Anon: A child’s story book from around 1910. 9.5in x 7.5in. Paper covered boards with front cover colour illustration by C K Cook of children in soap box sled pulled by dog. No author or publisher is given. Stories contained are: The Viking’s Conquest, The Palace Of Light, The Lonesome Fairy, all illustrated with b&w drawings full page and in-text. Prize stamp on prelim is dated 1913. Some staining and soiling to boards with edge rubs, pages toning with a few soil marks and spots. A very scarce child’s book from this period.

Ref  15714:  £30.00

The Clever Little Tailor or “Seven at a Blow”; Saywell, Frederic B.: London, Halton & Truscott Smith. n.d. Hardcover in dj, . 'Versified' by Frederic B. Saywell. 12 beautiful colour plates edge tipoed  on grey card by Herbert J. Harvey. Illustrated title page, decorative border and tailpiece to each page of text. 56pp. Original patterned boards, vellum spine. Book Very Good, endpapers browned, internally tight and clean, all plates present and undamaged, slight bumps to cover corners and spine ends, slight darkening of white spine. No inscriptions or names. Heavy paper jacket, illustrated on front and rear in green with green titling, Very Good, small ruck at front spine edge now reinforced on reverse with archival tape, now in protective wrap. A very nice copy of this attractive book.

Ref  17936:   £57.50

UNDER THE WINDOW Pictures & Rhymes for Children; GREENAWAY, Kate: London, George Routledge and Sons, nd. Believed first, with 'End of Contents' printed at bottom of p. 14. 9.5x 7.5 inches, 64pp, engravings by Edmund Evans. Blue-green cloth backed pictorial boards. Glazed boards with surface crazing and cracking, edges and corners rubbed. boards bowed and warped. Damage to endpapers and prelims. Patch of something about 4cm across on ffep which has adhered to front pastedown, Now separated but left 3cm hole in middle of ffep also affected through prelims to Contents page with small holes and marks. Internally pages are tight, some small marks foxing spots, but pages look good and illustrations are bright and colourful. A charmingly illustrated collection of verses for young children by this renowned author and illustrator believed to date from 1878. A nice reading copy but because of damage sold strictly as Reading Copy only

Ref 100463:   £22.00

Sweet Playhours Picture Book; Anon: London, Alexandra Publishing Company, no date [c1890?]. A delightful Victorian children’s book. 11 stories. Unpaginated [89 pages]. 24 full page b&w engraved illustrations, further 39 engravings in-text, vignettes, chapter headings and tails. Illustrated pictorial boards. Externally in poor shape, spine backstrip is lost, later linen backstrip has been added to hold signatures together but some signatures are pulling internally but none detached. Front and rear boards are present and good with edge rubs. Pages are browning with toned patches at some margins. A very scarce Victorian book with delightful engravings and in very acceptable reading condition

Ref  100975:  £30.00

The Girl’s Own Annual. Volume 4; London, The Leisure Hour Office 1882-83. Grey cloth covers decorated with silver & gilt.. 4to. 832pp + viii. Cold. frontis., several cold. plates, profusely illustrated in text and plates some coloured. All plates present as indexed.  Covers soiled and bumped, inner hinges broken and boards held by cords. Some pages and signatures working loose and standing proud of block, occasional foxing throughout. Issues of the Girl’s Own Paper from number 146,October 14 1882, to number 196 , September 29 1883. Great number of articles and stories, many engravings, many fashion drawings and notes.

Ref  18416:  £25.00          (Also on Magazine Page)

The Girl's Own Annual. Volume VII, October 1885 – September 1886; London, The Leisure Hour Office 1885/86.  Half leather. Black leather spine and corner guards on black cloth boards.832pp. Coloured. frontis, profusely illustrated in text and plates some coloured. All plates present as indexed.  Minor rubs at corners and spine ends. All hinges sound. Internally tight and clean. Great number of articles and stories, many engravings. A hard year to find.

Ref 102617 :  £35.00

The Girl's Own Annual. Volume VII, October 1885 – September 1886; London, The Leisure Hour Office 1885/86.  Green cloth decorated with gilt and black. 832pp, only 5 of the 12 plates remain. Profusely illustrated in text. Book Fair with fragile bindings, covers rubbed at corners and spine ends, inner joints cracked and loosening but holding on cords, gift inscription on ffep, internally tight and clean   

Ref 102618 :  £20.00

The Girl’s Own Annual. Volume 7; London, The Leisure Hour Office 1885-63. Red cloth covers decorated with silver, gilt and black.. 4to. 832pp  Cold. frontis., profusely illustrated in text and plates some coloured. All plates present as indexed.  Covers soiled and bumped, inner hinges broken and boards held by cords. Binding generally loose and shaken, some pages and signatures working loose and standing proud of block, occasional foxing throughout. Issues of the Girl’s Own Paper from number 301, October 3 1885, to number 351 , September 18 1886. Great number of articles and stories, many engravings, many fashion drawings and notes.

Ref  18417:  £20.00           (Also on Magazine Page)

The Girl's Own Annual. Vol. 15. Oct. 1893 - Sept. 1894: London, "The Leisure Hour" Office. 1894. 4to. Red pictorial cloth.  The Girl’s Own Paper from number 719, October 1893 to number 770 September 29 1894. 832 pp, Many b/w illustrations in text plus plates including colour chromo, all plates present as listed, fold-out plate still intact.  The usual mix of articles, fashion, music, verse, handiwork, stories etc and of course many quite superb engravings. Cloth tatty on outside, rubs to extremities, fraying at spine ends, stains and soiling, including a patch lifting on rear board.. Internal hinges weakening but holding, very minor page edge tears and occasional crumpling where signatures have loosened and stand slightly proud, occasional spot of foxing but generally clean. Many contributing writers, composers, artists. A hard volume to find. Weight over 2kg. Postage at cost

Ref  17583:   £35.00           (Also on Magazine Page)

The Girl's Own Annual Volume XIX,  1897-1898: London, "The Leisure Hour" Office, 1898. Large Hardcover, blue cloth, decorated in gilt, bevelled edges to boards. Complete year October 2^nd 1897 to September 24^th 1898. 11in x 9in, 832pp, 11 plates, some colour and one colour fold-out, great many b&w illustrations in text.. Boards are rubbed at corners, edges and spine ends, outer hinges sound, inner hinges sound with endpapers cracked along joints. Internally complete, a few signatures are loosening and standing slightly proud but no pages detached, occasional spotting. A nice copy, better than usual for this 100 year old magazine. The usual mix of articles, fashion, music, verse, handiwork, stories, medical reports, nature study etc and of course many quite superb engravings.  Weight over 2kg. Postage at cost   Ref  18771:   £35.00           (Also on Magazine Page)

VOYAGE DE MADEMOISELLE LILI AUTOUR DU MONDE. Texte par P.-J. Stahl, dessins par L. Froelich. Gravures par E. Matthis: STAHL P. J. (Pseudonyme de Pierre-Jules HETZEL) ;  HETZEL & Cie, no date.  Hardcover, red cloth, richly decorated on front with gilt designs, motif and title, rear blind stamped pattern. All edges gilt. 4to, 11 x 7.25 inches, unpaginated. Text in French. 47 stories each with one full page engraved plate, sepia. Engraved frontis, sepia illustrated title page. Illustrations by L. Frolich, engravings by WE. Matthis. Book is Good, covers have rub throughs at corners, spine ends rubbed with fraying at head and tail. Internally, no names or inscriptions, foxing spots to pre-lims and first and last few pages and occasional throughout,  plate XL has corner missing not affecting illustration. Gutters pulling at a couple of places but tight throughout with no loose pages, couple of signatures standing proud by a millimetre. Scarce book.

Ref  101559:  £30.00         (Also on Foreign Page)

SCHOOLGIRLS ALBUM 1953; London, Gerald G. Swan, 1953. Hardcover, green cloth spine on pictorial boards. 109pp, colour frontis, b&w illustrations. Various authors including Winifred Norling, Renee Clarke et al. Good book, bumps and rubs to board corners and edges, covers and spine intact, price clipped, name on ffep, internally tight and generally clean with very light toning to margins

Ref  101209:  £8.00

THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND Vol. XXXV 1895;Various:  London, S.W. Partridge, 1895. Hardcover, pictorial boards 188pp + 16pp adverts. Pictorial end-papers. Coloured frontis plus many superb b/w illustrations by artists such as Harold Copping, Rainey, Fairfax, Hipsley et al. Book is Fair only, boards soiled, outer hinges sound, inner hinges slack with cracked paper and mull pulling, Child’s colouring to endpapers and on several internal illustrations, not too untidy Internally block is tight with no loose pages, a little browning to margins on first couple of pages but generally reasonably clean. Delightful Victorian child’s publication

Ref  101144:  £6.00

PLAUDERSTŰNDCHEN  Eine Festgabe zur unterhaltung und Belehrung fűr Knaben und Mädchen von 8-12 Jahren;  Binder, Helene :Nurnberg, Theodor Stroefer’s Kunstverlag, no date. Cloth spin on pictorial boards, shows 3 young girls playing with a puppy on the stairs. 176pp, several colour plates, great many very nice engraved b&w plates and in-text illustrations. Text is in Gothic German. Board corners are rubbed, pencil scribbling on all endpapers. Internally tight and generally clean.Quite an enchanting book. Scarce.

Ref  101145:  £20.00

Ewing, Juliana Horatia, Illustrated by Mrs. Allingham; A Flat Iron For A Farthing or Some Passages in The Life of An Only Son: London, George Ball And Sons, 1889. Hardcover. Good, no dust Jacket as issued. . 8vo. 116pp, 12 illustrations by Mrs. Allingham. Three-quarters leather on blue cloth boards. Outside tatty,,  rubs to corner guards, boards and spine, spine has lost 2cm at head and is chipped at tail, Prize award inscription on ffep dated 1891. Internally tight, two facing pages have what looks like a red ink stain with staining at page edges but otherwise clean with no foxing and hardly any toning. All illustrations clean and bright.

Ref  17624:  £15.00

DANDELION CLOCKS & OTHER TALES ; Ewing, Juliana Horatia. London, Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, no date. Hardcover, yellow pictorial boards. 8.25 x 6.25 inches, 55pp, b&w illustrations. Small rubs along spine, scuff on front where label removed, corners rubbed. Browning to endpapers. Internally tight and clean, no names or scribbling.

Ref  101146: £9.00

The Prize for Girls and Boys 1919: London,  Wells Gardner Darton, 1919. First Edition. Hard cover. Red cloth decorated with black scrolls and border with gilt title plate on front board. Good+/No Jacket Issued. 9.25in x 7.25in, 164pp, 12 colour plates, plus b&w plates and illustrations in text, all by various illustrators. Boards bumped at extremities, rubbed at spine tips. Internally tight, pages toning at margins, gift inscription on pastedown dated 1919. Articles and stories for children.  Nice children’s book from 85 years ago, colours in plates are bright and vibrant

ref  16346:  £17.50

Prince Prigio; Lang, Andrew: London: Talisman Books, 1979. First edition thus. ISBN: 090598322X. Very Good in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, with slight spine fade and slight edge crinkles.  Lang’s classic original tale first published in 1889 has been freshly illustrated throughout for this edition by the Dutch artist Klaas Bil

Ref  16360:   £10.00

HOW YOU BEGAN A Child's Introduction To Biology; Williams-Ellis, Amabel : London, Gerald Howe, 1928 reprint. Hardcover, beige cloth, black decoration to front, no dj. 7.25 x 5in, 96pp, b&w line drawings. Book  Fair, covers soiled, spine darkened, bumps and rubs to corners and spine ends. Gift inscription on ffep, internally tight and clean.

Ref  100124:  £6.00

Farmyard Friends; Groom,  Arthur: London,  Purnell, n.d. [c1950s]. Cloth spine, illustrated paper covered boards with illustration of a three-horse ploughing team on front and cows on rear. 92pp, illustrated by A. E. Kennedy with some very nice colour plates and b&w in-text drawings, illustrated endpapers. Book is Good, bumps and rubs to board extremities and some small scuffs to surface. Internally tight and clean, no names, no inscriptions, no scribbles. Very nioce copy.

Ref  18650:  £8.00

Blyton, Enid, Illustrated by Grace Lodge, R Brown, et al; The Second Holiday Book: London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co Hard Cover. No Jacket. Annual. 250mm x 190mm. Nd [1947]. 192pp. Green boards with green spine. Front board has titles and illustration (3 children and a dog running) in gilt. Corners bumped and worn, covers stained and rubbed. Small writing “A3” on fep, erased name and address on prelim leaving surface scuffs to paper. Some soil marks to pages. 4 full page colour illustrations by Grace Lodge, it is believed there should be 2 more so it is sold as incomplete. Rest of book is intact with no scribbling, crayoning. Good reading copy

Ref  15726:  £3.50 

Enid Blyton's Annual; Blyton, Enid: London: L. T. A. Robinson. No date. Hard Cover, no dj. Red boards with gold picture of clown blowing horn on front cover. Book Good, covers bumped and rubbed through at corners and spine ends, at extremities, small splits at spine tips and backstrip fraying and lifting at top. Gift inscription on ffep. Internally clean.

REF  18534:   £4.00

MY ENID BLYTON BOOK (Number 3) ; London, Marks & Spencer, no date 1949. Hardcover. Red cloth spine, pictorial boards showing two children watching a parade of fairies. Blue pictorial endpapers. Two tone text illustrations. First story ‘We Don’t Want To Go To Bed’. Small split at bottom of front hinges, boards rubbed  around edges, inner front hinge weakening. A few spots on endpapers and gift inscription. Internally tight and clean.

Ref  102182 : £6.50

Hello Mr Twiddle; Blyton, Enid : London, Dean 1968 Fair/Fair. Very small amount of colouring on prelims where child has filled in a couple of letters in title , pages toned at margins. Rear corner of cover rubbed away along with corner of jacket. Tight. Jacket clipped, edge wear.

Ref  19595:  £2.00

DOWN AT THE FARM with ENID BLYTON; Blyton, Enid : London, Sampson Low Marston, 1951. Green cloth spine, pictorial boards. 45pp, illustrated in colour throughout by  Cicely Steed. Good book, indents to boards and slight crinkles in surface, corners rubbed. Spine faded and slight leeching of green dye onto boards. Front pastedown slightly crinkled and small stain, name entered. Internally tight and clean.. Nice low cost reading copy.

Ref 104194 : £4.00

Bumpy and His Bus ; Blyton. Enid, Illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler: London, George Newnes, no date, 2^nd edition [c1950?]. Hardcover, red cloth. 95 pages, two illustrations per page in b/w by Dorothy M. Wheeler, story lines under each picture. Book is Fair, soil and stains to covers, name on prelim, several of the illustrations have been coloured, the majority are clean. A scarce Blyton collectable edition

Ref  101199:  £3.50

Blyton, Enid; Five On A Secret Trail: London, Award Publications, 1985. Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards, no dj. ISBN 0861636007. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Jolyne Knox. Book Very Good, Gift inscription on ffep, small bumps to over corners.. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17069:  £3.00

Blyton, Enid; Five Go Down To The Sea: Leicester, Knight Books, 1971.  Mass Market paperback. ISBN 0340042516. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Eileen A. Soper. Book Good only, covers creased and rubbed, internally tight and clean. Good reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17072:  £1.50

Blyton, Enid; Five On A Treasure Island: London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997. Mass Market paperback. ISBN 0340681063. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Eileen A. Soper. Book Good only, Names inside cover, covers creased, internally tight and clean. Good reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17070:  £1.50

Blyton, Enid; Five On Kirrin Island Again: London, Knight Books, 1979.  Mass Market paperback. ISBN 0340040025. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Betty Maxey. Book Good only, Names on prelim, covers creased, internally tight and clean. Good reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17071:  £1.50

Blyton, Enid; Five Go Off To Camp: Leicester, Knight Books, 1981.  Mass Market paperback. ISBN 0340040033. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Betty Maxey. Book Good only, covers creased and rubbed with small tears at spine edges, internally tight and clean. Good reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17073:  £1.50

Blyton, Enid; Five Fall Into Adventure: Leicester, Knight Books, 1976.  Mass Market paperback. ISBN 0340041412. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Betty Maxey. Book Very Good, covers small creases and rubs, few marks on block edges, internally tight and clean. Very Good reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17074:  £1.75

Blyton, Enid; Five Go Off In A Caravan: London, Knight Books, 1980.  Mass Market paperback. ISBN 0340040017. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Betty Maxey. Book Very Good, covers small creases and rubs, internally tight and clean. Very Good reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17075:  £2.00

Blyton, Enid; Five Go Adventuring Again: London, Award Publications, 1993. Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards, no dj. ISBN 0861636872. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Jolyne Knox. Book Very Good, Gift inscription inside cover on front pastedown, else book is near fine.  Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17068:  £3.00

Blyton, Enid; Five On A Hike Together: Leicester, Knight Books, 1976. Mass market paperback: ISBN 0340041447. Famous Five adventure. Bok  Very Good, small reference nmber written on front,  bookplate on prelim, small cover corner creases. Internally tight with light toning to page margins. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17067:  £1.50

Blyton, Enid; Five Get Into A Fix: London, Knight Books, 1978.  Mass Market paperback. ISBN 0340104309. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Betty Maxey. Book Fair only, covers creased and rubbed, internally tight and clean with pages toning. Good reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17085:  £1.20

Blyton, Enid; Five Go To Smuggler’s Top: London, Knight Books, 1976.  Mass Market paperback. ISBN 0340040009. Famous Five adventure. Illustrated by Betty Maxey. Book Fair only, covers creased and rubbed, marks on prelim left by old label internally tight and clean with pages toning. Acceptable reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17086:  £1.20

Blyton, Enid; In The Fifth At Malory Towers: London, Dragon Books, 1973.  Mass Market paperback. ISBN 05833004562. Fifth book in Blyton’s school series. Illustrated by Jenny Chapple. Book Fair only, covers creased and rubbed, small split at spine lower hinge, internally tight and clean with pages toning. Acceptable reading copy. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  17101:  £1.20

Batt, Elisabeth; The Scarlet Runners: London, Lutterworth Press, 1967. 1^st ed. Hardcover, brown cloth, in dj. Illustrated by Daphne Rowles. Book very Good, school prize label on ffep. Internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, clipped, minor edge wear. Small book. Low shipping Rates.

Ref  17088:  £4.00

Brown, John:  Rab and his Friends: Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1905.  First in the series "Little Prose Masterpieces".  6.25in x 3in, 38 pages “Printed on fine hand-made paper, tastefully decorated , with large initials in red, and in Japanese vellum wrapper" ; pages uncut. Plain card covers with dustwrapper, Very Good / Good+. Very scarce in these editions. Small book. Low postage rates

Ref  14505:  £15.00

Quetzal Quest The Story of the Capture of the Quetzal the Sacred Bird of the Aztecs and the Maya; Hagen, Victor W.v. & Hawkins, Quail : London: OUP, 1948, 2^nd imp.  Hardcover Green Cloth, no cloth. 8vo, 209pp, illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor, foreword by Julian Huxley. Book Fair, green cloth seriously faded and discoloured. Slight bow to boards, edge spotting, gift inscription on ffep, spotting to prelims and rear pages and occasionally throughout. Sound book, hinges intact, tight. The story of a quest to bring the Quetzal bird back alive to London.  Two American naturalists search for and capture the quetzal."Old Chico returned to his hut somewhat sad.for they had carried away what was left of his people's greatness." Firm low cost reading copy.

Ref  19967:  £4.00

Smith, Evelyn; Terry's Best Term: London, Blackie & Son Ltd, no dat [c1950s?]. Hardcover 208pp, b7w frontispiece. Yellow board with black decorative thistle motifs. Book Good, tight clean with toning at page margins. Couple of pages have very small pieces from lower margin.

Ref  19121:  £3.00

Watts, Helen K.; The Nevilles: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, nd [c1910].  Original decorated green cloth.  8vo, 128pp + ads. Colour frontispiece. Very Good, Sunday School Prize label inside cover dated Christmas 1914. Tight and reasonably clean with no foxing. LOW SHIPPING RATES ON THIS BOOK

Ref  18626:  £7.00

Brought Out Of Peril; Leslie, Emma: London, Religious Tract Society, no date [c1920].  Brown decorative cloth with paste-down picture. 253pp + ads, Coloured frontis. Book Good, scuff on front paste-down (where label removed?), bumps and small splits at spine ends, name inside cover, some foxing throughout not too obtrusive, couple of pages have had fore-edges trimmed shorter (text not affected.

Ref  18628:  £7.50

Everett-Green, Evelyn; Little Lady Clare: London, Blackie & Son, nd [c 1890]. Hardcover, red cloth decorated in gilt and black. 7.25in x 5in. 224pp +32 pages of ads.  Very Good bumps and rubs to extremities, some spotting to edges, internally clean, gift inscription date 1896 on prelim. 4 engraved plates by Robert Fowler

Ref 16777:   £7.00

Cupples, Mrs. George; Edmond Darley; or, One Good Turn Deserves Another: London: T. Nelson and Sons, nd [c1880] 16mo. 61 pp. Bound in green cloth, stamped in black on cover. Black and white in-text illustrations. Gift inscription dated 1884 on ffep. Endpapers browning, some marks on prelims and  soiling on pages throughout. Bumps and rube to cover corners and spine ends, hinges good, book tight. An interesting little book for the older child from 120 years ago

Ref  14393:   £15.00

Mrs Fairbairn; Fred Stamford’s Start In Life: London, W. & R. Chambers, nd [c1910?]. Hardcover, red cloth decorated with black pink and green illustration of girl on swing in tree. 6.75in x 4.5in, 72 pages, b&w frontis plus one other b&w plate,. Book Good+, slight cover bumps, Sunday School prize label dated 1913  inside cover. A very scarce book.. Low shipping rates

Ref  17481:  £15.00

John G Rowe; Round the World with Drake:London, Sampson Low, nd [c1925?]. Very Good. 1st Edition?. Nice copy with red pictorial boards showing galleons at war. Faint markings to covers. Some spotting to edges. Inside tight and reasonably clean. A tale of adventure set in Elizabethan times.

Ref  13104:  £6.00

Other People's Children; Caven, Marjorie, Illustrated by Walter De Groot :  London: Mayfair Publications, no date. Hardcover Blue Cloth.  Good/No Jacket. 9.75in x 7in, approximately 35 pages of verse with two-tone (black/red) illustrations interspersed. Slight darkening on covers, slight rubs at corners and spine ends. Slight foxing on title page internally lean and tight. Scarce book

Ref  19590 : £12.50

My Book Of Pictures; Anon: London, Blackie & Son, no date [c 1930s?]. Hardcover, green cloth spine and illustrated boards, Very Good, rubs and bumps to boards, crossword has been completed in pencil and then erased, otherwise tight and clean. Board illustration shows boy and girl together reading red book with small white dog on a blue background. First part of book is alaphabet with illustrations and rhymes, Second part is 16 page competition section, last part (nearly half of book) consists of 48 full page two-tone drawings of railways. In addition there are 11 full page colour plates. A very scarce child’s book in very nice condition

Ref  19589:  £15.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Carroll, Lewis: London, The Folio Society, 1961. Hardcover in slipcase. 113 pp, 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, Quarter red cloth over paper covered boards illustrated with Tenniel drawings. Book is Near Fine, no names or inscriptions and internally looks unread. Slip case covered in marbled blue paper, small split to one opening edge. Usual lovely Folio edition.

Ref 100414:  £10.00     (Also under Folios)