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SURREY: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Bruce Watkin.
Stock no. 1826369
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571096093. Light mottling to edges of boards, more so to rear board, else boards clean and bright. Contents clean. Price-cut green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

EAST SUSSEX: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by W.S. Mitchell.
Stock no. 1826293
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth boards, dark blue title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571107516. Light rubbing to lower board edges, minor pale marks to rear board. Foxing to prelims. Half-title page has a grease stripe (pale) about 2" wide from top to bottom at gutter edge. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is lightly marked on front flap (again, very minor) and lightly scuffed.

THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND: A SHELL GUIDE
Written by Stephen Bone.
Stock no. 1826292
Published by Faber & Faber. 2nd 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Skye to Oban. Green cloth. B/w photos. Colour maps to rear. Second edition - no mention of this within the book but carries the later dustwrapper, being a b/w photo with green and blue title background, blue rear panel with list of Shell Guides ending with South-West Wales. Boards nice and bright, light rubbing to lower edges. Name in ink to verso of free front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few closed tears which have been repaired to verso with clear tape (no loss), top & tail of spine rubbbed with loss of surface paper and minor chipping. Slight musty odour present.

MOLLY WHUPPIE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 1325038
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

Molly and her two sisters find themselves lost in the forest.... they come across a house which isn't the safe refuge they hoped for! Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Oblong 7.5 x 9.75". ISBN: 0571119425. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Some slight creasing in the laminate to spine edges and lower cover edges. Contents are fine.

HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 1325037
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Full-page colour illustrations. A short passage from The Song Of Hiawatha. ISBN: 0571132863. Some evidence of heavy pencil markings erased to front free-endpaper. Contents fine.

GROWLTIGER'S LAST STAND AND OTHER POEMS
Written by T.S. Eliot. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 1325034
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

With: The Pekes and the Pollicles and The Song of the Jellicles. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Superb colour pictures throughout. A brilliant new interpretation of three favourite poems from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. ISBN: 0571138829. Foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is price-cut.

THE BEACHCOMBERS
Written by Helen Cresswell. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 1323831
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

As soon as Ned set eyes on the Pickerings he knew there had been a mistake... They were everything his mother disliked. Yet he stayed on because of the Beachcombers - he found them on the beach with their enchanting boat "The Sea Queen"... B/w illustrations. Peach covers, gilt titles. 126 pages. Cr 8vo. ISBN: 0571099327. SIGNED by the author to half title-page (inscription to Stephen). Spine bumped. Some light/faint foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is faded to spine and a bit grubby/foxed on rear panel.

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.

THE VOICE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Catherine Brighton.
Stock no. 1824068
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1986. Slightly better than very good condition.

A sequence of poems by De La Mare, chosen and illustrated by Brighton. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0571139736. Boards slightly grubby. Foxing to top edge of verso of half-title page and title page. Else contents clean.

MOLLY WHUPPIE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 2140374
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

Molly and her two sisters find themselves lost in the forest.... they come across a house which isn't the safe refuge they hoped for! Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Oblong 7.5 x 9.75". ISBN: 0571119425. A little fading to spine. Contents are still excellent.

THE LORD FISH
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 2140153
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1933. Almost very good condition.

7 Fairy Tales by Walter de la Mare: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Lilac cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations including the illustrated title page, b/w chapter headers. 289 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some scuffing. Brown marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer pages edges.

THE STORY OF JOSEPH
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1322955
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial paper boards with peach spine. B/w line drawings. 83 pages. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.