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THE MOUSE, THE PENCIL AND THE PAINTED COCKEREL
No author listed.
Stock no. 1312121
Published by Bancroft & Co.(Publishers) Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Westminster Books. Oblong format. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations. Covers are a bit edge worn and chipped with small patch of surface paper damage to front cover. Slight crease to page edges and light page browning else contents clean.

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VANDRAD THE VIKING
Written by J. Storer Clouston.
Stock no. 1312118
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. circa 1914. Good condition.

Green decorated cloth with gilt title to spine. 4 colour plates. 224 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Foxing to prelims. Prize plate to front pastedown. Ink name stamp used multiple times to front endpapers and a sticker has been removed from free-endpaper.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1978
No author listed. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 2113541
Published by Daily Express. 1978. Almost very good condition.

Laminated pictorial boards. Front cover shows Rupert on the back of a sledge, waving. First story is Rupert and the Rivals. The first Rupert annual to be drawn by John Harrold. 115 pages. 10x7 inches. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Chipping to a couple of corners. A few marks to covers. Name in ink in belongs to box. NOT price-cut. Ink scribble to a few pages to rear.

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EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES
Written by Erich Kastner.
Stock no. 1312102
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1947. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Yellow cloth. Black titles and vignettes. B/w text illustations. 222 pages. New and Cheaper Edition. With an introduction by Walter de la Mare. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine discoloured. Booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers. A couple of page corners are creased. Price-cut wrapper is edge chipped and has most of the spine missing and old tape stuck to inside edges (glue has browned).

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SNAIL AND THE PENNITHORNES AND THE PRINCESS
Written by Barbara Willard. Illustrated by Geoffrey S. Fletcher.
Stock no. 1502292
Published by The Epworth Press. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Dark pink boards, cream title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 159 pages. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Endpapers partially lightly browned. Foxing, mainly to prelims and text block. Grubby mark to text block. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with a few small tears. Unevenly browned and foxed, very foxed on verso.

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CALF
No author listed.
Stock no. 2113496
Published by Castell Brothers. Very good condition.

Small format. Shaped cardwrap book. No title to cover or inside - first line inside says 'Out went Master Calf'. Colour illustrations. Only a few pages long. Top of 'Ear' of cow to front cover and a couple of pages internally are torn off. A few light margin marks.

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TURKISH TROPHIES
No author listed.
Stock no. 2113483
Published by Merrimack Publishing Corp.. Circa 1980. Very good condition.

2" Flip-book. A version of the 1905 antique. Originally it was given gratis by the cigarette maker to induce you to smoke his product. Ironically, the pictures are on chest development. Some marks to covers.

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PUSS IN BOOTS
Written by Arthur Mansbridge.
Stock no. 1312072
Published by Renwick of Otley. Almost very good condition.

Retold in Rhyme. Pictorial front board. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine very slightly bumped, corners slightly worn. Pale page browning else contents clean.

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THE PRIZE FOR GIRLS AND BOYS 1902
No author listed.
Stock no. 1312071
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.. 1902. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, black decoration to front with gilt title-box. 13 chromolithograph plates. 164 pages. Plus 32 page catalogue. Spine and corners bumped. Spine faded. Light musty smell to contents. Some light foxing.

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TEDDY BEARS ON PAPER
Written by Susan Brown Nicholson.
Stock no. 1312068
Published by Taylor Publishing Company. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

A carefully researched text and price guide about teddy bear graphics on antique paper items. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0917205030. Spine and corners bumped. Contents fine.

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POPPETY'S BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Inez Topham; Harry Woolley; et al..
Stock no. 1312066
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

Pictorial boards. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. An anthology of mainly verse, one short story. 15 pages. Paper covering of backstrip is mostly chipped off. Small patch of surface paper damage and a small crayon mark to front cover. Prize plate and name in ink to top margin inside front cover (which is a colour plate). Some yellow crayon to one illustration. Small biro mark to first text page. Surface paper torn from top corner of inside rear cover (also a colour plate).

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THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE
Written by Richard Rostron. Illustrated by Frank Lieberman.
Stock no. 1312018
Published by Collins. 1st 1944. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Black cloth, yellow title to spine and vignette to front cover. Yellow and black pictorial endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. Story based on the verse by Goethe. Spine and corners bumped, some fading to top of spine. Light fingering to page edges. Dustwrapper is very worn and torn with substantial loss to spine and to top of rear panel. What remains of wrapper is in two pieces (split at rear spine fold).

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