UNDER MILK WOOD
Written by Dylan Thomas; Douglas Cleverdon. Illustrated by Ceri Richards.
Stock no. 1831503
Published by Folio Society. 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

A Play for Voices. Edited with an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon. Purple cloth rear board and spine with gilt title. Grey cloth front board with a lilac leaf design. Light grey endpapers. Lilac two-tone lithographs. 93 pages. Sixth printing. Front spine edge slightly dusty else a lovely copy. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is a little scuffed with a few marks.

SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF THE TEMPEST
Written by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1331343
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

40 tipped in colour plates, tissue guarded. Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to front cover and spine. 143 pages. 11 x 8.5". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. A few small dents to cover edges. Spine is foxed and has a small worn patch to rear edge with slight loss of cloth. Front joint is cracked. There is some light foxing to the contents. Some of the tissue-guards are creased but all plates are present and in fine condition.

JOE CARPENTER & SON: AN ENGLISH NATIVITY
Written by Graham Clarke. Illustrated by Graham Clarke.
Stock no. 1831063
Published by Phaidon. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A wonderfully humorous and moving version of the Nativity Story, packed with Christmas delight. The events of Jesus' birth unfold in vivid verse and pictures, which recount the familiar story through the experiences of the inhabitants of an English village in the mists of Graham Clarke's 'anachronological' time scale. Can be performed as a play, read aloud or simply enjoyed as a picture book fror its own sake. Oblong format. Purple cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations, some fold out pages. 54 pages. ISBN: 0714826766. Lower corners of boards are bumped. Boards are otherwise clean. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is price-cut and faded to spine and top spine edge.

GOOD AFTERNOON, CHILDREN
Written by Columbus. Illustrated by John Morton-Sale.
Stock no. 1330859
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1932. Very good condition.

Wireless stories and plays from The Children's Hour. Edited by Columbus. Yellow cloth, grey titles and decorations. 4 Colour plates and many b/w illustrations. 267 pages. 9.5 x 6". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed, spine slightly darkened. Small, neat name and date ink stamps to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins but contents generally clean.

SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF THE TEMPEST
Written by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1330587
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

40 tipped in colour plates, tissue guarded. Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to front cover and spine. 143 pages. 11 x 8.5". Spine and corners bumped, covers edge rubbed. There is some very slight fraying of cloth to spine edges. There are a couple of tiny nicks to top edge of front cover. Discolouration to the rear cover (see picture). Foxing to page margins and textblock. Some hinges slightly cracked but binding still nice and tight. Plates all present and in fine condition.

LITTLE GREY RABBIT TO THE RESCUE A PLAY
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1330126
Published by Collins. 1st thus 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey pictorial boards, blue titles. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. Blue text. Colour illustrations. 64 pages. ISBN: 0001941135. Spine and corners bumped. Dustwrapper is price-cut, slightly edge worn and slightly grubby.

THE CREAM OF NOEL COWARD
Written by Noel Coward; Michael Cox. Illustrated by Helen Smithson.
Stock no. 1830199
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Selected by Michael Cox. Gold pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. 277 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is just slightly grubby.

THE BIRDS/THE FROGS (THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN)
Written by Aristophanes; Dudley Fitts; Gilbert Seldes. Illustrated by Marian Parry; John Austen.
Stock no. 1829200
Published by Easton Press. 1st thus 1979. Nearly fine condition.

Two stories in one volume. Introduction by Dudley Fitts and Gilbert Seldes respectively. Wood engravings by John Austen in The Frogs. Collector's Edition. Bound in genuine leather. Dark green leather boards, four raised bands and gilt title to spine, gilt tooling to boards. Peach colour moire cloth endpapers with matching ribbon page marker. All edges gilt. A lovely copy.

FAUST (THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN)
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Alice Raphael. Illustrated by Eugene Delacroix.
Stock no. 1829199
Published by Easton Press. 1st thus 1980. Nearly fine condition.

A Tragedy: in a Modern Translation by Alice Raphael. The original Drame illustrated with lithographs by Delacroix. Collector's Edition. Bound in genuine leather. Burgundy leather boards, four raised bands to spine, gilt title to spine, gilt tooling to boards. Light brown moire cloth endpapers with matching ribbon page marker. Colour frontis (not Delacroix) & b/w lithographs. xxv and 183 pages. All edges gilt. A lovely copy.

THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG
Written by Richard Wagner. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1328450
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st thus 1939. Good condition.

A Trilogy With A Prelude By Richard Wagner. 2 Volumes in 1: The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie; Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, originally published in 1910 and 1911. 48 dramatic colour plates and b/w decorations. Blue cloth, black titles. Green/white pictorial endpapers. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly rubbed. Damp spotting to cover edges. Small splash mark to lower edge of front cover. Foxing to contents.

THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE
Written by William Shakespeare; Peter W.M. Blayney.
Stock no. 1827950
Published by W.W. Norton & Company Inc.. 2nd 1996. Very good condition.

The Norton Facsimile. Based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection. Prepared by Charlton Hinman with an introduction by Peter W.M. Blayney. Large format. Heavy volume. Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies. Leather spine. Pictorial cloth. Second edition. ISBN: 0393039854. A lovey copy. Contained in publisher's slipcase which has some scuffing and a small tear of surface paper to lower edge.

THE TRAGEDY OF MR. PUNCH
Written by Russell Thorndike; Reginald Arkell. Illustrated by Arthur Watts.
Stock no. 1825542
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1st 1923. Almost very good condition.

A Fantastic Play in Prologue and One Act. The classic tale of Punch and Judy. Introductory essay by Max Beerbohm. 9 tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown paper. Large format. Beige cloth spine, grey marble effect boards. 61 pages. Board edges rubbed. Three flower stickers/decoupage to lower half of front pastedown. Text block and endpapers browned. Small burn mark to top margin of page 13-17 with minor loss. One or two closed tears to page edges (no loss), a few grubby marks to contents. All plates present, some have a lower corner crease.