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TERRIER Y BULL & TERRIER LAS RAZAS DE COMBATE Y CAZA
Written by Jesus Brey; Carlos De Guinea. Illustrated by Jose G. Ojados.
Stock no. 2121439
Published by Seiquer. 1996. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Card wraps. Text in Spanish. Title: TERRIER AND BULL & TERRIER RACES OF COMBAT AND HUNTING. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 8492169508. SIGNED by authors and Illustrator to prelims. Uneven fading to cover edges, with creasing; a few marks.

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FROM FRIEND TO FRIEND A CALENDAR FOR 1912
No author listed. Illustrated by Fred Hines; Eddie J. Andrews; et al..
Stock no. 1505944
Published by Ernest Nister. 1912. Very good condition.

A calendar for the year 1912. Beautiful chromolithographs. 6 x 4.5". White cloth spine. Cream covers with blue titles and decoration. Colour chromolithographs. Green illustrations on pages with verses and months. Covers slightly grubby with a little bubbling to front cover and faint stains, looks like been splashed with water. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Staples strating to rust. Contents clean and colours bright.

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QUALITY STREET
Written by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 1505881
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Comedy in Four Acts. Large format. Elaborately decorated blue/lilac cloth covers, large gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Illustrated endpapers. 22 beautiful tissue-guarded colour plates and b/w text illustrations.198 pages. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Faint stain, only visible at certain angles, to spine edges of rear and front cover. Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown. Foxing and light browning to endpapers. Contents very good just an odd margin tear and fox spot. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with tears to ends of spine. Creasing to folds and sides of spine. Browning to spine and unevenly to rear panel. Browning and pink stains to verso corresponding with faint stains on covers.

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ROB LINDSAY AND HIS SCHOOL
Written by H.C. Preston MacGoun. Illustrated by Preston MacGoun.
Stock no. 1405214
Published by William J. Hay; Samuel Baxter's & Sons. 1905. Almost very good condition.

A Reminiscence of Seventy-Five Years Ago. Grey/buff pictorial boards, cream spine. Described as 'A simple chapter in the homelier life of Scotland'. 45 pages. 7 x 5.75". Lovely b/w illustrations. Spine bumped, browned and worn with 3"split to one side. Small part of backstrip is missing. Corners worn. Covers grubby. Couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers browned. Some foxing to page edges. Page edges uncut.

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EXMOOR - THE RIDING PLAYGROUND OF ENGLAND
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1405205
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. 1st 1935. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth covers with dark titles and deer vignettes. Two-tone frontis plus 4 b/w plates, 2 fold out maps and small b/w repeated illustrations. 125 pages. Spine and corners a little bumped. Browning to spine and board edges. Small bump to bottom of front and rear board. Tissue guard to frontis is creased. Both maps have small tears where they are stuck into the book. The first map is creased at the edges. One plate is detached. Foxing to some pages and the top margin of some plates otherwise contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, chipped and creased. Remains of a label to rear flap. Small patch of surface paper damage to front flap. Some foxing and marks to panels. Wrapper is grubby.

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RIVERMOUTH
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 2120953
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Detailed studies of estuary birds. B/w illustrations. Green boards, black title to spine. Page browning. Wrapper is browned and edge-creased; couple of closed tears.

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LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1607965
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1917. Almost very good condition.

Deluxe edition, limited to 525 numbered and signed copies. Bound in light grey cloth with gold pictorial spine. Gold pictorial white label to front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 13 tipped-in colour plates and 43 b/w drawings. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. 250pp. 12 x 9.5". SIGNED by Rackham. Limited edition: this is copy number 352 of 525. Spine and corners bumped, with some wear to the cloth. Some marks to boards. Cracking ans splitting to front joint. Endpapers browned. Bookplate pasted to half-title page. All colour plates present: last plate is corner creased but all others are in fine condition. A few scattered foxspots. Contents generally clean and bright, but pages 248-9 are browned.

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BILL THE MINDER
Written by W. Heath Robinson. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1405141
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1928. Almost very good condition.

Dark yellow cloth with black titles to spine and front cover and black and blue vignette to front cover. 16 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, with captioned page guards before them. Small b/w illustrations to text. 254 pages. Spine and corners bumped and a little worn. Couple of marks to covers. Both joints and some hinges are cracked. Foxing especially to endpapers, prelims and page edges. Contents otherwise clean. Plates all present and in very good condition. Contained in a slip case in very good condition.

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FLOWERS OF REMEMBRANCE
Written by S.C. Hall. Illustrated by Annie Simpson.
Stock no. 1405098
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps with small cut out to front cover held together by fine cord. Colour and b/w illustrations. 4" x 5.75". A little creasing to one corner of front cover. Covers a little grubby. Inscription to first page. Some light browning and foxing otherwise contents generally clean. Cord holding book together in very good condition.

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WE PRAISE THEE O GOD TE DEUM CALENDAR FOR 1911
No author listed.
Stock no. 1405096
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Very good condition.

White cloth spine. Beige boards with red and black titles plus red and white vignette to front board. Elaborate colour illustrations and borders. A list of important dates in the church's calendar. 6" x 4.5" Spine and corners bumped. Spine grubby. Covers a little marked and grubby. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Staples rusty. Contents clean. Illustrations in very good condition.

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KING ROBERT OF SICILY
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by Jane Willis Grey.
Stock no. 1405035
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. 1st 1895. Slightly better than good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt vignette and titles to spine. Patterned endpapers. Colour, sepia and b/w illustrations. 11.5" x 8.5" Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers marked including some white marks to rear board. One hinge broken showing stitching beneath and another badly cracked. Small patch of surface paper damage to title page and page opposite. Endpapers and some pages internally lightly browned. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown and initials in ink to rear pastedown. Some foxing and grubby marks. A few small tears to inner margins.

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A FINE LADY UPON A WHITE HORSE
Written by Enid Leigh Hunt. Illustrated by Gladys Peto.
Stock no. 2120451
Published by Dodge Publishing Company. Almost very good condition.

Her Journeying through the Realm of Fancy. Black cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. A few marks to covers. Binding is a bit weak in places; some hinges are pulled. Heavy foxing to prelims and outer page edges. A few page margin tears.

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