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CHILDREN'S HOUR WITH PETER RABBIT
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1208897
Published by The Platt And Munk Co. Inc.. Circa 1926. Good condition.

US pirated edition of Peter Rabbit. Brown cloth spine, red boards with gilt title and colour onlay to front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers are worn, faded at edges with light damp spots to front cover. Some hinges cracked causing contents to be a little loose but binding still tight. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins. 4 pages have a brown stain to margins, 1 b/w illustration slightly affected.

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THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1208894
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1919. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Deluxe edition with original gilt decorated grey cloth, oval pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour frontis and 26 illustrations. All edges gilt. 84 numbered pages. Light fingering to the contents but still bright and clean. Spine slightly bumped with slight rubbing to spine and corners. Cloth is beautifully bright having been protected by original printed glassine wrapper which is chipped and torn in places, with archival tape repair to rear panel, large tears to spine and corners. Printed 1/6 net at base of wrapper spine and Timmy Tiptoes is the last title listed on the wrapper. Published between 1911 and 1919 (Timmy Tiptoes published in 1911 and Warne went Ltd in 1919). A very nice copy of a deluxe edition with an exceptionally scarce glassine wrapper.

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POOKIE AND HIS SHOP
Written by Ivy L. Wallace. Illustrated by Ivy L. Wallace.
Stock no. 1330356
Published by Pookie Productions Ltd.. 1st thus 1991. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 1872885039. Minimal bumping to spine and corners.

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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.

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LITTLE GREY RABBIT'S SPRING-CLEANING PARTY
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Katherine Wigglesworth.
Stock no. 1330125
Published by Collins. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Yellow pictorial boards. Delightful colour pictures throughout. 63 pages. ISBN: 0001941313. Covers are edge rubbed else bright. Pale page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby to rear panel.

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UNCLE REMUS STORIES
Written by Joel Chandler Harris; Jane Shaw. Illustrated by William Backhouse.
Stock no. 1329942
Published by Collins. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format, cream boards with red title and vignette. Delightful colour illustrations. Retold by Jane Shaw. 13 stories. 61 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned. Slight foxing, musty smell to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tears to top edge and some loss to top of spine and rear panel (small tape repairs on verso).

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THE PETER RABBIT POP-UP BOOK
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter; Colin Twinn.
Stock no. 1329627
Published by Frederick Warne. Circa 1983. Good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. From 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' by Potter. 6 pop-up pages. Paper engineering by Keith Moseley. ISBN: 0723229503. 8th printing. Spine and corners bumped. Piece broken off pop-up scene with Mr McGregor and his sieve (peter rabbit - but still present). Other pop-ups in good working order.

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FURTHER TALES OF LITTLE GREY RABBIT
Written by Denis Judd; Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1329604
Published by Collins. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Written in the same style of the original Alison Uttley stories, this collection of stories is based on a surprise discovery of previously unpublished Margaret Tempest pictures. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour pictures. 158 pages. ISBN: 0001942018. Dustwrapper is price-cut, creased to spine, there is a damp stain (hardly visible) to top edge of front panel.

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MRS. PETER RABBIT
Written by Thornton W. Burgess. Illustrated by Harrison Cady.
Stock no. 1329600
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1920. Fair condition.

Green Meadow Series. Green cloth with pictorial onlay to front cover. 8 colour plates. 205 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Crayon(?) scribble to rear cover. Only 6 of the 8 plates are present (2 MISSING).

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MRS. BUNNYKINS' BUSY DAY
Written by Alan Wright. Illustrated by Alan Wright; Ernest Vetsch.
Stock no. 1329138
Published by Whitman Publishing Company. Circa 1928. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Blue boards with black title and illustration. Full-page colour and b/w text illustrations. Covers a little grubby and browned. Rubbing to cover edges and light damp stain to edge of rear cover. Belongs to box at back of book has a name and address (and date) in ink. Staples rusty. Some grubby fingermarks to contents.

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MASTER BUNNY THE BAKER'S BOY
Written by Molly Brett. Illustrated by Molly Brett.
Stock no. 1329074
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

A Strip Book. Very small oblong format, card wraps. Blue and yellow pictorial front cover with price 1/-. Red linen spine. Blue, black and white illustrations throughout. On rear cover 'Titles in the famous Mary Mouse series for the very young with a list of strip book titles - from 'Welcome Mary Mouse' to 'Master Bunny The Baker's Boy'. Staples rusty causing staining to backstrip. Rear cover is grubby. Child's name in pink ink inside front cover. Light stain affecting top margins of first half of the book.

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TEENY-WEENY AND BABY BUNNY
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang.
Stock no. 1329060
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

A Teeny Weeny Book. Very small format. approx " 2.75 x 3.5". Green paper boards with red spine and yellow titles. Teeny-Weeny is a little girl. B/w text illustrations. Spine is faded and worn with some loss of surface paper at top of spine. Foxing to textblock. Name in ink to top margin of free-endpaper. Some hinges cracked but binding still tight.

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