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THE STORY OF HIAWATHA
Written by Edith L. Elias. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.
Stock no. 1318077
Published by George G. Harrap & Co.. 1st 1914. Very good condition.

Small format, pictorial boards. Fold-out panorama with 14 colour illustrations including 2 double-page. Pictures one side, text the other. Most unusual. Covers are grubby, name in ink to front. Corners worn and edges rubbed. Some marks to contents. Some foxing and light fingering.

RIGHT ROYAL
Written by John Masefield. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1318013
Published by William Heinemann. 1st thus 1922. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth, gilt titles and horsehead vignette to front. 4 tipped-in colour plates. A horse-racing poem. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Browning to endpapers, light foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some slight chipping with loss and a grubby mark with some slight surface paper damage to author's name on front panel.

GRANDMOTHER DEAR
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1317965
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1895. Good condition.

Blue cloth with dark blue title to spine and decorations to front cover. Gilt title to front. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine and cover edges browned. Front free-endpaper is missing. Foxing and grubby fingermarks to contents.

DO YOUR DUTY
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by H.M. Brock.
Stock no. 2131403
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1904. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth and spine, with gilt title to spine. Colour frontis + 7 b/w illustrations. 112 pages + catalogue to rear. 7x 4.75". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine browned. Covers mottled and a little rubbed. Prize plate to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Foxing to contents, some heavy.

THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES
Written by Frank Corsaro. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2131198
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1st USA 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format. Beige cloth with gilt title to spine and brown/red vignette to front cover. Colour illustrations and endpapers. The Glyndebourne Version. Some foxing to outer page edges. Original acetate wrapper is torn with a bit of loss; creased with some grubby marks.

PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES
Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Illustrated by C.E. Brock.
Stock no. 2131111
Published by Gay and Bird. 1901. Very good condition.

Dark green boards, gilt titles and thistle decorations. Title to covers is 'Penelope's Experiences England'. Being extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton. All edges gilt. B/w illustrations. 174 pages plus book list. Light bumping to spine and corners. Bookplate to front pastedown. A few light margin marks.

THE ROYAL PROGRESS OF KING PEPITO
Written by Beatrix F. Cresswell. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 2131018
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1st 1889. Slightly better than good condition.

Brown pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Chipping to cover edges and spine, with loss of paper cover. Damp stain to front cover. Rear joint is partially cracked. Endpapers are browned. Contents are still very good!

HANDLEY CROSS OR MR. JORROCKS'S HUNT - VOLUME I
Written by R.S. Surtees. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 2130785
Published by Edward Arnold. Slightly better than good condition.

Red cloth covers with gilt vignette to front and title to spine. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations throughout. 363 pages. Spine is grubby and faded. Bumping to corners. Spotting/marks to covers. Foxing.

AN ARTIST'S MODELS
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 2130753
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. 1st 1930. Almost very 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! Bumping to corners. Spine is browned. Small tear in cloth near base of spine. Damp mark across top edge of rear cover. Inscriptions in ink to front pastedown and endpaper. Foxing throughout. Edge creasing to a couple of plates. One plate has been torn out, with jagged edge and taped back in with sticky tape.

TO HELL WITH DYING
Written by Alice Walker. Illustrated by Catherine Deeter.
Stock no. 2130708
Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. Circa 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. Dark pink cloth spine, with gilt title. Pink covers with gilt title to front. Colour illustrations. American edition. ISBN: 0152890750. 2nd printing (b). Foxing to outer page edges and some page margins internally. Wrapper is faded to spine.

A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2130476
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1919. Very good condition.

Large format, 9.75 x 7.5". Blue cloth, gilt titles and green decorations. 16 tipped-in colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Spine is faded. Some spotting to covers. Bumping to some cover edges. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and page margins. All plates present.

SUN BABIES
Written by Cornelia Sorabji.
Stock no. 2130304
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1929. Good condition.

Large format. Grey boards with pictorial onlay. 8 Studies in colour by G.H. Spine is very browned with splits and fraying to cloth. Browning and spotting to covers. Score mark to onlay to front cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing. Grubby marks to pages. A working copy!