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ALMANACK FOR 1885
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 594895
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1885. Very good condition.

Dark cream pictorial boards, yellow cloth spine. Blue/green endpapers. Enchanting illustrations throughout, mostly of young ladies in typical Greenaway dress. 4 x 3". Some grubby marks and foxing to covers. A few foxspots to pages internally.

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ALMANACK FOR 1883
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 594894
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1883. Very good condition.

Cream pictorial boards, yellow cloth spine. Blue/green endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout, some full-page. 4 x 3 inches. Corners are bumped. Some grubby marks to covers. Uneven fading to covers. Foxing throughout. Part of stitching to middle of book is starting to come a little loose.

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A DAY IN A CHILD'S LIFE
Written by Myles B. Foster. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 594222
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1881. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Songs for a child's day with music. Colour illustrations throughout. 10 x 8.5 ". Green and yellow pictorial paper boards. 29 pages. Boards a little foxed. A few finger marks to margins. Page 12 and facing page 13 has paper residue to bottom corners and small mark. Pictorial wrapper is foxed and torn at edges with loss including most of spine missing (of dustwrapper).

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PRINTED KATE GREENAWAY A CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Written by Thomas E. Schuster; Rodney K. Engen. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 589966
Published by T.E. Schuster. 1st 1986. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A fully comprehensive reference book listing over 600 major items with hundreds of variants within each heading. Covering published books, greetings cards, periodicals, ephemera and spinoffs. Green cloth, gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0951175203. SIGNED by T.E. Schuster on front endpaper. A great copy!

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ALMANACK FOR 1924
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 737044
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1924. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations (originally used n the 1883 Almanack). Minimal rubbing to corners. Some light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Contained in original glassine wrapper which states "The coloured illustrations are the actual first printing of the 1883 Almanack. The text for the Year 1924 is now inserted". The wrappper is just slightly edge chipped but complete.

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THE KATE GREENAWAY BOOK
Written by Bryan Holme. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 654911
Published by Penguin. 1st 1977. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wrap edition. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0140045198.

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THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE
Written by Bret Harte. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 619210
Published by Universal Books. 1st 1987. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Originally published c1885, this is a facsimile edition. The Queen of the title is Polly, nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour and had never been to sea, but a very imaginative character... Beautifully illustrated with delicately coloured paintings. Dark green cloth. 60 pages. 10.5 x 8.5". ISBN: 0864410182. Spine bumped. Rear cover lightly marked. Outer page margins very lightly yellowed else contents fine. Dustwrapper very slightly grubby. A nice copy.

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THE KATE GREENAWAY BOOK
Written by Bryan Holme. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 604987
Published by Viking Press, NY. 1st USA 1976. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A collection of illustration, verse and text. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0670411833. Small mark left by removal of label from front endpaper.

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KATE GREENAWAY'S PAINTING BOOK
Written by Kate Greenaway. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 308534
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Outlines from various Greenaway works for Boys and Girls to paint. 9.5 x 7". Front cover shows two girls with doll and paint brush. Lower half of front cover detached. Names written in ink and coloured pencil to front cover. Paper covering from spine has rubbed off. Covers are grubby. Most pages partially coloured, some better than others! Drawings to some blank pages. Some coloured pencil marks to margins and a little writing. Overall a nice copy of a scarce, fragile item.

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LITTLE ANN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Jane Taylor; Ann Taylor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 606453
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1882. Slightly better than very good condition.

Olive green spine and corners, cream pictorial boards. Yellow endpapers. Blue edges. 64 pages. 9.25 x 6". Printed by Edmund Evans. Very very slight light foxing to prelims otherwise a nice clean copy.

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A PAINTING BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 718878
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Good condition.

White pictorial card wraps with blue border to front. B/w illustrations throughout to paint. (No text). Spine replaced with blue cloth. Covers grubby with corner tips missing. Some neat painting to contents. Not dated but c1890.

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KATE GREENAWAY PICTURES
Written by H.M. Cundall. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 721714
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1921. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

From Originals Presented By Her to John Ruskin and Other Personal Friends (Hitherto Unpublished) With an Appreciation by Cundall. Large format. Cream cloth spine with green title, green cloth covers with gilt title to front. Mounted colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Light rubbed patch to edge of front cover. Light foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is edge-worn and grubby with some loss at spine and pink watermark to front. A nice copy of a rare book, scarce in wrapper.

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