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THE NEW BIG NODDY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1404605
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; D.V. Publications Ltd.. 1958. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red cloth spine. Pink pictorial glazed boards showing Noddy in his aeroplane. Colour illustrations. Big Noddy Book No. 8. Top and bottom of spine browned. Corners bumped. Board edges faded. Name in belongs to box plus inscription on same page. One colouring page messily completed. Couple of corners are creased. Some foxing, mainly to page edges. Some marks, including a few coloured pencil marks otherwise contents are generally clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and creased with small areas of loss to top and bottom of spine. Spine and panel edges are faded, Some pen marks to front cover. Wrapper grubby.

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NODDY'S TALL BLUE BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Robert Tyndall.
Stock no. 1404595
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1960. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial blue paper wraps. 4 pictures to a page - in colour - with text beneath. 10 pages. Unpaginated. 26.25cm tall, 7.5cm wide. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. Contents excellent.

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BABY BUNTING'S FIRST BOOK
Written by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert.
Stock no. 1314977
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Limited. Very good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial boards. 2 pretty colour plates. B/w illustrations to text throughout. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Foxing to contents. One page has a small margin tear. Tiny patch of surface paper damage to top corner of front pastedown.

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NODDY'S TALL GREEN BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Robert Tyndall.
Stock no. 1404594
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1960. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial green paper wraps. 4 pictures to a page - in colour - with text beneath. 10 pages. Unpaginated. 26.25cm tall, 7.5cm wide. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. Contents very good. An excellent copy.

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PLEASURES AND JOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
Written by D.J.D.. Illustrated by Harold Copping; et al..
Stock no. 1314976
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. Good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows 3 boys pushing/pulling a girl on a sleigh. First story is "The Race". Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 112 pages. Spine slightly bumped and stained. Covers slightly edge worn and scuffed. Front joint is cracked at lower half causing free-endpaper and frontis to be part detached. Front joint between frontis and title-page is cracked showing webbing, lower half is broken. Hinges cracked and pulled causing contents to be loose. A decent copy overall.

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NODDY AND THE NOAH'S ARK ADVENTURE PICTURE BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1404590
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; Dennis Dobson Ltd.. circa 1970. Very good condition.

Green glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0361005245. Spine and corners bumped. Light scratch mark to rear board. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some foxing mostly to page edges otherwise contents are clean.

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NISTER'S HOLIDAY ANNUAL - 29TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Written by Alfred C. Playne; Everett Green; L.L. Weedon; et al. Illustrated by Harriett M. Bennett; Dorothy Hardy; et al..
Stock no. 1314973
Published by Ernest Nister. 1917. Good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt title and pictorial onlay to front. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. 176 pages. Green and white pictorial endpapers. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. There is some slight wrinkling of cloth to rear cover. Frontis has been re-inserted in the incorrect place (before half-title) and is slightly edge-chipped. Light page browning to contents.

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NISTER'S HOLIDAY ANNUAL - 22ND YEAR
Written by Alfred C. Playne; George Manville Fenn; Olive Molesworth; L.L. Weedon; Sheila E. Braine; et al. Illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick; E. Stuart Hardy; G.H. Thompson; et al..
Stock no. 1314970
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. circa 1910. Very good condition.

22nd year of publication. Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows a boy and a girl sledging. 6 colour plates, b/w illustrations throughout. 131 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Small indentation to edge of rear cover. Prize plate to front pastedown. Light page browning throughout, some grubby marks to margins and some light foxing.

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HOLIDAY TIMES
No author listed. Illustrated by M. Bowley; et al..
Stock no. 1314966
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Good condition.

A book of short poems/rhymes for children. Large format. Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows boy pushing a girl in a sleigh with dog running beside them. Pretty mounted chromolithograph frontis. B/w illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped and worn, covers scratched and edge worn. Page browning throughout. A couple of hinges cracked. Light fingermarks to page margins.

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MY FAVOURITE
No author listed. Illustrated by Percy Holland; Victor Prout; et al..
Stock no. 1314965
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1906. Very good condition.

Stories for Little People. Blue cloth spine, pictorial front board shows two young girls huddled under brolly on ferry crossing in snow scene. B/w & two-tone illustrations. Spine slightly bumped, some slight rubbing to corners. Rear cover is lightly browned. Prize plate to front pastedown. Light page browning and fingering but generally contents clean.

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BO-PEEP A TREASURY FOR THE LITTLE ONES
No author listed. Illustrated by Harry B. Neilson; et al..
Stock no. 1314964
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1900. Good condition.

Pictorial boards, front shows young boy and girl washing dolls in bath tub in front of fire. First story is "Uncle Tom's Story". 8 colour plates plus two-tone and b/w illustrations throughout. 184 pages plus publication list to rear. Spine bumped, covers grubby and edge worn. Some childish colouring to the b/w illustrations. Page browning, mainly to publication list. Grubby marks to front endpaper and small embossed booksellers stamp to top corner of front free-endpaper. Some pulling to the hinges.

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PRINCESS BADOURA
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1505035
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition.

White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green endpapers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly coloured plates. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine browned, bumped and worn with small nicks to cloth at either end. Corners worn. Covers grubby and marked. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown. A couple of hinges cracked but binding still firm. A little foxing and browning. Fingering to contents but generally clean. All plates present and in very good condition.

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