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THE BOOK OF BETTY BARBER
Written by Maggie Browne. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Harry Rountree.
Stock no. 2125348
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1st 1910. Good condition.

Brown cloth, black titles to spine and front cover. Colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 6 colour plates and b/w illustrations. Spne and corners are bumped and worn. A few marks to covers. Colour frontis is MISSING. Some foxing and margin marks. Creasing to some page margins. All b/w illustrations have been coloured in. A reading copy.

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THE QUEEN OF HEARTS AND OTHER PLAYS
Written by Edgar A. Browne. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1317376
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1919. Very good condition.

Contains: Queen of Hearts; The Frog Prince; Beauty and the Beast; Bluebeard. Beige cloth, brown titles and vignette to front within a yellow oval. 4 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 142 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers ever so slightly grubby. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing and some fingering to contents.

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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Written by C.S. Evans. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1816121
Published by Chancellor Press. 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown boards, white title to spine. Silhouette illustration to front board. Colour frontis. B/w silhouette illustrations. Reproduction of the 1920 edition. ISBN: 1851520562. Corners lightly rubbed. Gift inscirption in ink to front endpaper. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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JEN OF THE ABBEY SCHOOL
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Florence Meyerheim.
Stock no. 2125329
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Very good condition.

Grey pictorial cloth. Colour frontis, 2 b/w plates. 311 pages plus publication list to rear. Small ink mark to edge of spine. Spotting along couple of cover edges. Brown mark to rear cover. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. All plates present. Contained in a colour PHOTOCOPY wrapper.

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ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN
Written by Trelleck. Illustrated by Trelleck.
Stock no. 2125323
Published by Raphael Tuck. Almost very good condition.

Stiff cardwraps. Colour illustrations. A Tuck Book. Damp staining across top edge of front cover. Red ink scribble to bottom of front cover. Browning to covers; some creasing to corners. Name in ink to margin of first page. Page corner creasing.

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THE BOY'S BOOK OF BALLADS
No author listed. Illustrated by John Gilbert.
Stock no. 2125319
Published by Bell & Daldy. 1st 1861. Good condition.

Purple cloth with gilt titles and blind decorations. Illustrated with 16 engravings on wood from drawings by John Gilbert. Includes Robin Hood. Spine is very darkened, with damage and a bit of loss to top; some other splits and fraying to edges. Corners are bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some browning and grubby marks to endpapers and page margins.

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LEGENDARY BALLADS
Written by Frank Sidgwick. Illustrated by Byam Shaw.
Stock no. 2125318
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1911. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt title to spine; blind title to front cover. A nice selection of verses with colour plates to contents. Includes Robin Hood. Red stain to rear cover and along edge of back of spine. Lighter stain to front cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE TWO FORM CAPTAINS
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Percy Tarrant.
Stock no. 2125311
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1921. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with green and blue decorations. 4 b/w plates. 380 pages. A few light marks to covers. Inscription in pencil to front endpaper. Foxing and a few grubby marks to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. All plates present.

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THE BIG BOOK OF FABLES
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2125303
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth with super gilt titles and vignettes of animals to front cover and spine. Green pictorial endpapers. 28 colour plates plus numerous b/w text illustrations. 293 pages. Spine is bumped and faded. A few small splash marks to rear cover. Name in ink to half-title page. Foxing heavy to prelims, lightly to other areas, including page margins. Frontis is creased to edges with a couple of small edge-nicks. All plates present.

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WHITE-EAR AND PETER
Written by Neils Heiberg. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 2125302
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

The Story of a Fox and a Fox-Terrier. Sixteen colour plates by Cecil Aldin. Red cloth, gilt titles and vignettes. All edges red. Splash mark to front cover. Wear and bumping to spine and cover edges. Darkening and small mark to spine. Foxing to endpapers and some page margins. All plates present.

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TWO JOANS AT THE ABBEY
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Margaret Horder.
Stock no. 2125298
Published by Collins. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with silver titles. 3 b/w plates. 222 pages. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Joint/hinge next to half-title page is cracked, so that webbing is showing through. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with some repairs; loss to top of spine and a couple of corners.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1976
No author listed. Illustrated by Alex Cubie.
Stock no. 1610508
Published by Daily Express. 1976. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial glazed boards - Rupert waving with a toy train. 1st story Rupert and the Jumping Men. 10x7 inches. 115 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Belongs-To box completed in ink. NOT price-cut.

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