LAURENCE HOUSMAN
Written by Rodney Engen. Illustrated by Laurence Housman.
Stock no. 1323936
Published by Catalpa Press Ltd. 1st 1983. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The Artis and the Critic series. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 157 pages plus index. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0904995046. A fine copy in dustwrapper which is very slightly creased at edges.

AN ARTIST'S MODELS
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1323856
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. 1st 1930. Good condition.

Beige cloth. Not a collection of lovely ladies but a collection of even lovelier dogs! 20 superb full-page sketches depicting models the artists has known in various doggy poses. Wonderful! Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers are a little grubby and spine is slightly faded and foxed. Inscription in pencil to front free-endpaper. Some hinges cracked and some light foxing to contents.

ALONE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Blair Hughes-Stanton.
Stock no. 1323825
Published by Faber and Gwyer, Ltd.. 1st 1927. Almost very good condition.

No. 4 of The Ariel Poems. Pink cardwraps. 1 full-page colour illustration. A very slim volume. Covers slightly grubby, mark to front cover. Contents clean.

POEMS OF COLERIDGE
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Edward Dowden. Illustrated by Chas. Pears; et al..
Stock no. 1323816
Published by Caxton Publishing Co.. Circa 1906. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

The Golden Poets series. B/w frontis and illustration to title-page, 8 colour plates (some by Chas. Pears). Blue cloth, gilt titles and white border lines. 275 pages, top edge gilt. Bumping to spine. Some faint spotting to covers. Endpapers partly browned. Foxing, mainly to textblock. Dustwrapper is browned and edge chipped, large tear to front edge of spine.

LOST, STOLEN OR STRAYED
Written by Marion Ashmore. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1323771
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1931. Good condition.

The adventures of an Aberdeen Terrier. Orange cloth, black titles and vignette of Scottie dog to front. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. 97 pages. Corners are bumped. Covers are grubby. Name plate to front pastedown. Foxing throughout.

LITTLE ANN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Jane Taylor; Ann Taylor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323487
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1920. Good condition.

Green cloth spine and corners, cream pictorial boards. Black title to spine. Title to front is Little Ann A Book. Grey endpapers. Colour illustrations. 64 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Some browning and scratch marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Front joint is cracked showing webbing beneath. Some grubby marks to page margins. Light browning to half title-page.

DESERT ISLANDS AND ROBINSON CRUSOE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1323483
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1930. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

De la Mare traces the development of desert island stories from ancient myths through Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and beyond. The work includes discussions of real castaways and shipwrecks alongside their fictional counterparts in books and folklore. Green cloth boards, gilt titles and decoration. B/w title-page illustration plus 4 other text illustrations. Spine bumped, worn and browned. Some fading to top edge of front cover. Vertical mark to centre of rear cover. Tissue-guards are browned. Some slight foxing. Dustwrapper is chipped and torn with loss at edges and to spine/rear panel. Light foxing to verso of wrapper.

DESERT ISLANDS AND ROBINSON CRUSOE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1323476
Published by Faber & Rinehart, Inc.. 1st USA 1930. Very good condition.

De la Mare traces the development of desert island stories from ancient myths through Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and beyond. The work includes discussions of real castaways and shipwrecks alongside their fictional counterparts in books and folklore. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w title-page illustration plus 1 other text illustration to footer of preface. 299 pages, fore-edges untrimmed. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. A few light scuff marks to covers. A few light pencil annotation marks to text but generally contents clean.

ALONE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Blair Hughes-Stanton.
Stock no. 1323472
Published by Faber and Gwyer, Ltd.. 1st 1927. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

No 4 of The Ariel Poems. White boards with black title and illustration to front. Colour frontis. Limited to 350 copies. This is copy no. 118. Covers and contents clean. Original tissue-paper dustwrapper is browned and edge chipped with quite a bit of loss.

PEACOCK PIE: A BOOK OF RHYMES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1824059
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1916. Very good condition.

Green cloth boards, gilt illustration and titles to front (also cream/gilt illustration 'He told me his dreams'). Colour frontis, numerous b/w text and full page illustrations throughout. 178 pages. Illustrated pastedowns. Boards a little rubbed at edges and lightly marked to rear board. Gilt to boards is bright. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers and text block browned. Title page browned. A few marks to contents. Slight musty odour present.

CINDERELLA
Written by C.S. Evans. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1323393
Published by Chancellor Press. 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Turquoise boards, white title to spine & black vignette to front. Colour frontis and one double page colour spread plus black silhouette drawings throughout. ISBN: 1851520554. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. Contents fine. Price-cut wrapper is just a tiny bit edge rubbed.

RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1323387
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Reset edition. a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. Green cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. 50 colour plates (printed both sides of the page) plus colour frontis. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Tiny white mark to top edge of front cover. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss and a little faded to spine.