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LITTLE MISS PEGGY
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1323085
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1st 1887. Almost very good condition.

Orange decorated cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w plates. 195 pages. Catalogue to rear dated September 1887. Black endpapers. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed, spine darkened with some slight fraying of cloth to edges. Tissue-guard to frontis is browned. Some page corner tips are creased.

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JASPER
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond.
Stock no. 1323082
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1906. Good condition.

Orange decorative cloth. Gilt title to spine. B/w plates. 235 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers grubby. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing to textblock.

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THE WOOD-PIGEONS AND MARY
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by H.R. Millar.
Stock no. 1323081
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1901. Very good condition.

Orange cloth with black and gilt titles. B/w frontis and plates. 192 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, covers slightly grubby. Endpapers browned. Foxing to textblock. Light musty smell to contents.

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HOUSEHOLD TALES BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1823898
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Based chiefly on the Bohn collection of 1884 for which Andrew Lang wrote the introduction, but a few stories from other versions included. 56 b/w illustrations & 5 coloured plates including double-spread title page. Yellow cloth boards, blue titles. 303 pages. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and edge-rubbed, spine heavily faded and also rear panel at spine edge, a few edge-chips and scuffing.

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BARNEY THE PIRATE
Written by Jess Webb. Illustrated by Tony Kerins.
Stock no. 1323072
Published by Boisterous Books Ltd. 1st 2014. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A picture book for anyone to read. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Limited edition of 200 copies. ISBN: 9780993093609. SIGNED by the artist to half title-page. This is copy no. 158.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 2009
Written by Stuart Trotter. Illustrated by Stuart Trotter.
Stock no. 1323048
Published by Egmont Books Ltd.. 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Front cover shows Rupert riding in a 'Fish-Plane' with pilot; friends watching from below. ISBN: 9781405244015. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Inscription in ink to belongs to page. Contents fine.

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CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR
Written by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1323046
Published by Viking. 1st thus 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 158 pages. ISBN: 0670853054. Spine bumped. Damp stain to lower edge of rear cover. Light foxing to textblock and page browning to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed, faded to spine and damp stained to lower edge of rear panel.

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BAD DAD
Written by David Walliams. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 1323043
Published by Harper Collins Childrens Books. 1st 2017. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. The story of a father and son on a thrilling mission to right a wrong and take on the villainous Mrs. Big! ISBN: 9780008164652. Minimal bumping to spine. Some light creasing to dustwrapper edges.

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THE TWINS AND TABIFFA
Written by Constance Heward. Illustrated by S.B. Pearse.
Stock no. 1323042
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1925. Very good condition.

Tabiffa is a big black cat who belongs partly to Peter but mostly to Binkie and Dinkie the four-year old twins. Blue boards with pictorial onlay to front. Colour and b/w illustrations to every page and pictorial endpapers. Small format. Unpaginated. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light foxing to contents else clean.

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THE PEACOCK PARTY
Written by Alan Aldridge; George E. Ryder. Illustrated by Alan Aldridge; Harry Willock.
Stock no. 2139979
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1979. Very good condition.

Green glazed pictorial boards. A Sequel to The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. Superb colour illustrations with a double-spread fold-out at rear of book. ISBN: 0224015915. Fading to spine and a couple of cover edges. Browning to page edges. 'PROOF' stamp to title page. Fold-out page to rear has crease along one edge.

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CARROTS JUST A LITTLE BOY
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 2139972
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1934. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine; blue decorations to front cover. 7 b/w plates. Spine is faded. Some marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges.

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THE ROBIN AND THE WREN
Written by Ian Serraillier. Illustrated by Fritz Wegner.
Stock no. 2139971
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A collection of the authors poems. Pictorial boards. Brown endpapers. Colour and b/w text illustrations. 64 pages. ISBN: 0722650086. Browning and foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased and faded to spine; a few nicks to edges.

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