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SOUL THOUGHTS
Written by Felicity Pyke. Illustrated by Jennie Preece.
Stock no. 2114192
Published by Felicity Pyke. 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. SIGNED by author to front endpaper. A few marks to covers.

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THE UNKNOWN ISLAND
Written by Dudley Charles Hoon. Illustrated by Brenda Sheldon.
Stock no. 1402462
Published by Pongo Books. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

The Adventures of Pongo the Pup. Brown cloth. Title and vignette of Pongo on front board. Two-tone illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Small piece of bottom corner of front endpaper missing. Creasing to rear endpaper. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A few foxspots and a couple of grubby marks otherwise contents are generally clean. Dustwrapper is worn and torn with areas of loss at bottom of spine, top of rear panel and bottom of rear flap. Creasing to both panels and flap. Couple of pen marks at bottom of front flap. Grubby marks to rear panel.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1312289
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format, 9.75 x 7.5". Blue cloth, gilt titles and green decorations. 16 tipped-in colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Some hinges cracked. Endpapers lightly browned. Some foxspots else contents clean. All plates present and in fine condition. Dustwrapper has slight loss to top and tail of spine (and a slightly larger section of loss to top of front panel beside spine edge. Very scarce in dustwrapper.

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THE STORY OF FOUR LITTLE SABOTS
Written by Dora W. Pearsall.
Stock no. 1502214
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1906. Fair condition.

Small format. Dark green boards with white titles and small pictorial onlay to front. Full-page colour illustrations. Story in rhyme. 86 pages. Spine worn and cracked along edges, slight loss at bottom. Front board detached. Corners worn. Covers marked. Rear joint has been repaired or strengthened with tape. Name in ink to copyright page. Final illustration has tear to centre. Grubby marks throughout.

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NONSENSE SONGS
Written by Edward Lear; Dudley Glass. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 2113142
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Set to music by Glass. Large format. Cloth spine, orange boards. 23 pages. B/w text illustrations. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners. A little page browning; some foxing, mainly to outer page edges. A few grubby margin marks. Wrapper has some large tears and chips; large piece of loss to front panel and corner; grubby.

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PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 2113125
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1944. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A little book of extraordinary piety. 30 full page b/w illustrations. 63pp. Blue cloth covers, gilt vignette to front. Some browning to cover edges. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some grubby margin marks. Wrapper is faded to spine, with edge-tears and chips; minimal loss.

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SILVER AND GOLD
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Lewis Baumer.
Stock no. 1311807
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Small format, pink cloth, black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. A charming book of poetry. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A couple of small marks to top edge of rear cover. Front free-endpaper has been removed. There is a tiny booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. First few and last few pages are browned/foxed else the contents are clean.

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WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY PORRIDGE
Written by Colin McNaughton. Illustrated by Colin McNaughton.
Stock no. 2112854
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book of daft poems and pictures. Large format. Pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers. Colour pictures throughout. ISBN: 0744507413. Wrapper is unevenly faded, with edge-creasing and a couple of closed tears.

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TWO MERRY MARINERS
Written by John Brymer. Illustrated by Stewart Orr.
Stock no. 1402298
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Tiny Tots series. A story told in verse. Tiny Tots Series. Small oblong format. Brown boards, chequered squares to corners of covers. Pictorial onlay. Colour illustrations. Blue pictorial endpapers. Corners and board edges bumped and rubbed. Covers are worn and scuffed. Backstrip missing from spine. Back cover has been torn in two and is mended with clear tape. Small ink mark to front cover. Rear endpaper is missing. Front and back joints are beginning to crack. Some foxing and a few grubby marks to contents. Reprint.

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LITTLE MISS MUFFET COUNTS TO TEN
Written by Emma Chichester-Clarke. Illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark.
Stock no. 1710270
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1997. Fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0862647479.

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A NURSERY COMPANION
Written by Iona Opie; Peter Opie.
Stock no. 1207901
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1980. As new condition in a fine dustwrapper.

This volume, the celebration of an epoch, brings together the contents of more than a score of early 19th century children's booklets including classics such as 'Dame Wiggins Of Lee', 'House That Jack Built' etc. Hundrens of illustrations throughout - many in colour. Grey boards, red title to spine. Red endpapers. 12 x 8". 128 pages. ISBN: 0192122134.

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RAGGED ROBIN
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark.
Stock no. 1710162
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1990. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

James Reeves takes children on a magical poetic tour through the alphabet - here is King Arthur in Avalon, Brand the Blacksmith, Moths and Moonshine, Noah, etc. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0744511089.

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