THE COURTSHIP AND WEDDING OF THE LITTLE MAN AND THE LITTLE MAID
No author listed.
Stock no. 1314919
Published by McLoughlin Bros.. Good condition.

Pleasure Books. Small, thin format (15x12cm). B/w illustrations. Yellow paperwraps. Covers edge rubbed with a couple of small tears to front edges. Inscription in ink to title-page. Contents have been professionally glued into covers. 1 small tear to edge title-page. Some light foxing and fingering but generally contents clean.

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COME HITHER VOLUME II
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Diana Bloomfield.
Stock no. 2118036
Published by Kestrel Books. 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A collection of poems. Pale green boards with gilt title to spine. Numerous b/w wood engravings to text. ISBN: 0722654715. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with faded spine and edges; some foxing.

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CALICO PIE
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1504888
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. circa 1940. Very good condition.

Small format 4.5 x 3.5". Pictorial boards show birds flying to a tree, cloth spine. B/w illustrations. A little wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers browned, and odd fox spot otherwise contents clean.

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THE CHILDREN'S GARLAND OF VERSE
Written by Grace Rhys; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Sir Walter Scott; Edward Lear; et al. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2117994
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1921. Very good condition.

A selection of work by well-known poets gathered by Grace Rhys. Pale grey cloth covers with blue, green and orange floral decorations. 8 colour illustrations. 296 pages. Spine is browned, with scuffing to title. Some scuffing also to title on front cover. Grubby marks to covers. Foxing/browning to endpapers and outer page edges. All plates present.

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THE HAUNTED VALLEY AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Mabel Esther Allan.
Stock no. 1404245
1st 1981. Very good condition.

Wartime poems. White cardwraps with dark titles and border to front cover. 44 pages. SIGNED by author to inside front cover. Couple of text corrections written in ink otherwise contents are clean.

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THE FARMER'S BOY
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314510
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

One of Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books. 8 delightful colour illus. B/w text illus. 30 pages.9.25" x 8.25". Colour illustrated boards. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. First and last pages lightly browned and foxed otherwise contents bright and clean.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK No. 1
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314508
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

Containing The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack Built; An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog; The Babes in the Wood. Large square format 9.25 x 8.25". Orange cloth with dark orange and black pictorial front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, light stain to base of spine and spine edge of front cover. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned, some light foxing to contents.

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WHEN I WAS BORN
Written by Edward Shirley. Illustrated by Beryl Reid.
Stock no. 1314430
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. circa 1920. Good condition.

The Jingle Books No. 7. Large format. Red cloth spine. 8 tipped-in colour plates. Binding has been professionally reinforced, new endpapers as well. Corners worn. Inscription in ink to half-title. Plates all present and in fine condition. Some light colouring to the b/w illustrations. There is light foxing and grubby fingermarks to the pages.

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THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN
Written by William Cowper. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314423
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Small, square format. (5.5 x 4.5"). Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. All edges gilt. Slight discolouration to rear cover. Browning and foxing to prelims and last few pages. Contents clean. Also comes with a letter from the publishers confirming that only 4 titles of these small size Caldecott books were printed.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314401
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1919. Very good condition.

Contains the Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack built; An Elegy on the Death Of A Mad Dog and The Babes In The Wood. Large, square format. Cream pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations. Sepia line drawings. Spine slightly bumped. Cream cloth is ever so slightly grubby. There is a tiny nick to top edge of rear cover. Rear free-endpaper is creased. Front joint is just starting to crack. There is some very light fingering to page margins. This is a nice, attractive copy.

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TWELVE HAPPY MONTHS
Written by Marjorie E. Kirtley. Illustrated by Audrey Brunton.
Stock no. 1314142
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A charming little book of verse and prose about the months of the year. Written with the idea of teaching children to entertain themselves with their own drawings. Pictorial boards. Green/orange illustrations. 7.5 x 6". Spine bumped, small split at top. Endpapers partly browned/foxed. Small mark to verso of front endpaper. A few light fingermarks but contents generally clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and torn to front panel, score marks to rear panel (where book has been lent on to write).

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THE GIANT, THE DWARF AND THE WHISTLING BIRD
No author listed. Illustrated by V. Edgecombe Jenkins.
Stock no. 1809779
Published by The Featherstone Press Ltd.. Very good condition.

Small, slim format (5.5 x 4.25"). Pictorial paperwraps. Full-page colour illustrations. Contains a short story told in verse and other childrens verse. Covers lightly creased and scuffed. Staples rusty. Front hinge pulled but binding still tight. Generally a clean copy.

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