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PETER PAN'S POSTBAG
No author listed. Illustrated by Albert Rothenstein.
Stock no. 1323259
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Good condition.

Letters to Pauline Chase when she was playing the part of Peter Pan. Brown pictorial cloth with white titles. Fold-out map of Never Never Land to rear of book. Colour frontis. Spine is browned and title to spine has rubbed away. Covers a bit grubby. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. SIGNED by Pauline Chase to lower margin of frontis. Frontis has been removed from original position and taped in between title-page and introduction page (old tape marks to margins of these pages and to margin of frontis). Foxspots to contents. Biro annotation marks to the last letter (page 63 & 64) and map at rear is creased and torn with old tape marks. Booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A few small, light marks to page margins and one hinge is cracked showing webbing beneath.

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BIGGLES WORKS IT OUT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323256
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles and vignette. 8 yellow and black illustrations. 191 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, preliminary pages and to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn, slightly faded to spine and rear panel is very slightly grubby. The wrapper is slightly foxed.

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BIGGLES GETS HIS MEN
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323254
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, dark titles and vignette. B/w illustrations. 189 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Tiny brown spot to front cover. Inscription in ink to front pastedown (covered by wrapper flap). A few light foxspots else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss and rear panel is grubby.

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BIGGLES AND THE BLACK RAIDER
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323252
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Black vignette of aeroplane to front. 8 colour plates. Endpapers are maps. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed on flaps, is slightly edge worn and creased with a tear to front panel, rear panel is grubby.

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RHYME BOOK FOR ADAM
Written by Rose Fyleman.
Stock no. 1323239
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Rhymes for nursery children (or older). Small format. Yellow pictorial boards. 42 pages. Small b/w text illustration to title page. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed and edge chipped with a few small tears.

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TIMOTHY'S CONJUROR
Written by Rose Fyleman. Illustrated by Mary Clark.
Stock no. 1323238
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1942. Good condition.

Small format. Yellow cloth, red title to spine and small rabbit vignette to front cover. 118 pages. B/w illustrations. Covers are grubby and damp stained, spine bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light foxing to textblock else contents clean.

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THE EASTER HARE
Written by Rose Fyleman. Illustrated by Decie Merwin.
Stock no. 1323234
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1932. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. 112 pages plus 8 page publishers list to rear. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge rubbed and ever so slightly grubby. Child's name in pencil to front free-endpaper. One joint is cracked showing webbing. Endpapers and some page edges browned.

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TIM'S FRIEND TOWSER
Written by Edward Ardizzone. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1323231
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format, Pink pictorial boards, blue spine. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Light bumping to spine. Wear along cover edges. Later dustrapper (has printed price of £1.25) has publisher's original clear plastic still present and stuck to verso. Some edge-creasing to wrapper.

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READING AND RIGHTING
Written by Robert Leeson.
Stock no. 1323224
Published by Collins. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. The past, present and future of fiction for the young. ISBN: 0001844156. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Covers a little edge rubbed and unevenly browned.

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THE TALE OF NOAH AND THE FLOOD
Written by W.E. Williams. Illustrated by Clarke Hutton.
Stock no. 1323221
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book no. 54. Oblong format. Pictorial paper wraps. Colour and b/w lithograph illustrations. Covers slightly edge rubbed and grubby. Name in ink to top edge of front cover. Slight creasing to corners of covers and some page corner tips creased.

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ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA
Written by Sheila Hawkins. Illustrated by Sheila Hawkins.
Stock no. 1323215
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

Puffin picture book no. 45. Oblong format, paper wraps. Colour and b/w lithographed illustrations. Lithographed by Brown & Bibby. Name in ink and old price in pencil to front cover. Foxing to covers, inside covers and to page edges.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1983
No author listed. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1323206
Published by Express Newspapers Ltd.. 1983. Very good condition.

Tall 4to glazed boards - Rupert in plane flown by clown. 1st story Rupert and the Black Circle. 92 pages. ISBN: 0850791308. There is a small crease/tear to the surface paper on the lower edge of the front cover. A few tiny scuff marks to front edge of spine. Contents are fine (not price-cut or inscribed).

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