MR. BEAR, POSTMAN
Written by Chizuko Kuratomi. Illustrated by Kozo Kakimoto.
Stock no. 1830719
Published by Macdonald Futura Publishers Ltd.. 1st UK 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

When Mr. Bear taught himself how to ride a bicycle, everyone wondered why he had done it. They soon learned the answer: he had taken on the job of village postman... Square format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0354080784. Top & tail of spine bumped. Lower horizontal edge of boards is crushed towards spine edge. Contents are lovely. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at top & tail of spine, creased to lower rear edge, a little grubby, faded to spine.

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MR. BEAR'S SHADOW
Written by Chizuko Kuratomi. Illustrated by Kozo Kakimoto.
Stock no. 1830718
Published by Macdonald Futura Publishers Ltd.. 1st UK 1980. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In the morning when the rabbit children played at jumping on Mr. Bear's shadow, it was very big. When he woke up from his little snooze, it was midday and his shadow had shrunk. Poor Mr. Bear thought that he must have shrunk. Suddenly everything looked very big and he felt very small. Square format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0354081136. Boards lightly rubbed at corners. Contents excellent. Dustwrapper is faded to top and spine, lightly browned with one or two minor marks, corners lightly rubbed.

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MR. BEAR, BAKER
Written by Chizuko Kuratomi. Illustrated by Kozo Kakimoto.
Stock no. 1830717
Published by Macdonald Futura Publishers Ltd.. 1st UK 1981. Slightly better than very good condition.

Mr. Bear spends a day baking for the rabbit baker as he ruined some flour by sleeping on it! Large square format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0354081357. Spine and corners lightly shelf-rubbed. Fading to top edge of rear board, creasing to spine. Contents lovely!

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PETER RABBIT AND THE BIG BROWN BEAR
Written by Beatrix Potter; Charles Stuart Macleod. Illustrated by Bess Goe Willis.
Stock no. 1208910
Published by Henry Altemus Company. Circa 1927. Almost very good condition.

A US pirated Peter Rabbit story. Altemus' Peter Rabbit Series. Red cloth spine with black title, purple boards with colour onlay to front cover. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed (corners slightly worn). Front cover is faded, edges of rear cover also faded. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Staples rusty. Contents clean.

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THE GRIZZLY REVENGE
Written by Ruth Brown. Illustrated by Ruth Brown.
Stock no. 1830110
Published by Andersen Press Ltd.. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

An original and intriguing picture book in which animals wreak and terrible revenge on a hunting lord and his lady. Yellow glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations, minimal text. ISBN: 0862640245. SIGNED by the author/illustrator with personal dedication to front pastedown. Spine lightly faded. Last stitch of binding was missed during the binding process so lower section of gutter is loose but minimally so. A few minor grubby finger marks to margins else contents are clean.

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MOSTLY MARY
Written by Gwynedd Rae. Illustrated by Irene Williamson.
Stock no. 1830096
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1942. Slightly better than good condition.

New Edition. A story about Mary Plain and real bears. Blue cloth, black titles and vignette to front. Charming b/w illustrations. 95 pages. Reprint. Boards are very faded (uneven) with some grubby marks. Spine is worn at top and tail and edges. Title to spine is rubbed. Hinges pulled but binding firm. A few minor margin marks.

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UNCLE REMUS STORIES
Written by Joel Chandler Harris; Jane Shaw. Illustrated by William Backhouse.
Stock no. 1329942
Published by Collins. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format, cream boards with red title and vignette. Delightful colour illustrations. Retold by Jane Shaw. 13 stories. 61 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned. Slight foxing, musty smell to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tears to top edge and some loss to top of spine and rear panel (small tape repairs on verso).

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BUSTER BEAR'S TWINS
Written by Thornton W. Burgess. Illustrated by Harrison Cady.
Stock no. 1329602
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1924. Good condition.

Green Forest Series. Blue cloth, orange title to spine and large pictorial onlay to front. Colour plates. 207 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Front joint is cracked showing webbing. Frontis is detached but still present. Light brown spots to pages 67 and 68 (and to verso of plate opposite page 67).

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THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF WOODLE BEAR
Written by G.E. Breary. Illustrated by G.E. Breary.
Stock no. 1329177
Published by George Newnes Limited. Circa 1946. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Woodle was a Fairy King Bear and goes to the Toyshop where he once lived to take back a Girl Bear to Fairyland... Grey cloth with dark red titles and vignette to front. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Some staining to lower edges of covers. Child's inscription in crayon to front pastedown (dated 1946). Light foxing to endpapers. Some light fingering to page margins and a couple of other marks also. Dustwrapper is worn and creased, grubby to rear panel and chipped with slight loss to spine and corners.

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A BAD LITTLE BEAR
No author listed. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 1329059
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. Circa 1910. Almost very good condition.

Small format (9.5x12cm). Grey boards with pictorial onlay and gold title to front cover. 12 colour plates some small b/w illustrations to margins. Spine and corners bumped, cover edges rubbed. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper (dated 1918). Endpapers browned. Foxing and fingering to contents.

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THE LITTLE BEAR STORIES
Written by Martin Waddell. Illustrated by Barbara Firth.
Stock no. 1329008
Published by Walker Books. 1st thus 2001. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A beautiful volume containing the four stories about Little Bear and Big Bear: Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?; Let's Go Home, Little Bear; You and Me, Little Bear and Well done, Little Bear. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0744581540. Some very light/faint foxing to top edge of textblock.

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THE LAST POLAR BEARS
Written by Harry Horse. Illustrated by Harry Horse.
Stock no. 1328937
Published by Viking; The Penguin Group. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, black title to spine. B/w text illustrations. A story told through a series of extraordinary letters. ISBN: 0670848670. Spine bumped. Evidence of erased pencil marks to top edge of front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed and faded to spine.

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