FOUR AND TWENTY TOILERS
Written by E.V. Lucas. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford.
Stock no. 1319584
Published by Grant Richards. Circa 1903. Good condition.

Large, oblong format. Brown cloth spine with gilt title. Cream boards. 24 short rhymes for occupations such as builder, vet, clock-winder etc. Each with a full-page colour plate. Covers are worn and grubby. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Joints are cracked but binding is still tight. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Light fingermarks to contents and light page browning to endpapers.

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BULLETS AND BILLETS
Written by Bruce Bairnsfather. Illustrated by Bruce Bairnsfather.
Stock no. 1819225
Published by Grant Richards. 1916. Almost very good condition.

A record of the authors times of his first six months in France, in the Valley of the Somme during World War I. Red pictorial cloth. Humourous b/w plates. Reprint in same year of first publication. Spine browned, boards grubby. Spine cocked. Name & inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing throughout and a few grubby marks to contents. Hinges pulled.

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THE STRUWWELPETER ALPHABET
Written by Harold Begbie. Illustrated by F. Carruthers Gould.
Stock no. 2130993
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1900. Good condition.

Brown pictorial boards, red cloth spine. 10.5 x 8.5". Colour plates and humourous verse. Spine is browned, with a couple of small holes to cloth. Covers are very browned/grubby with scuffing and Wear. Joints are cracked; can see webbing through and binding is weak. Contents are generally very good; a few margin marks.

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THE ADVENTURES OF SAMUEL AND SELINA
Written by Jean C. Archer. Illustrated by Jean C. Archer.
Stock no. 1316133
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1902. Very good condition.

Small format. The Dumpy Books For Children Series No. 13. Green cloth with dark green titles and borders. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners just a little bumped and rubbed. Some light browning to spine. Endpapers lightly browned. A couple of hinges are slightly pulled else contents are bright, clean and tight.

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THE ADVENTURES OF SAMUEL AND SELINA
Written by Jean C. Archer. Illustrated by Jean C. Archer.
Stock no. 2117195
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1902. Almost very good condition.

Small format. The Dumpy Books For Children Series No. 13. Green cloth with dark green titles and borders. Colour illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Grubby marks to covers. Front cover is a bit bowed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint a little cracked. Some browning to pages, a few grubby marks; couple of small nicks to page edges.

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A TRIP TO TOYLAND
Written by Henry Mayer. Illustrated by Henry Mayer.
Stock no. 1314646
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1900. Very good condition.

Large oblong format with red cloth spine and green pictorial boards. Packed with full-page colour plates. Printed one side only. Spine bumped. Corners slightly worn and some very slight rubbing to cover edges. Covers are just a little marked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers are lightly browned. Some foxing and fingering to contents which are generally clean.

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WALLY WANDEROON AND HIS STORYTELLING MACHINE
Written by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by Karl Moseley.
Stock no. 1504003
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1904. Almost very good condition.

Beige pictorial covers. A chunky book. 18 b/w plates plus frontis. 294 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine darkened, covers a bit grubby and scuffed. Ink name and tick to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning, mainly to endpapers and prelims.

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WALLY WANDEROON AND HIS STORYTELLING MACHINE
Written by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by Karl Moseley.
Stock no. 2115758
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1904. Almost very good condition.

Beige pictorial covers. A chunky book. 18 b/w plates plus frontis. 294 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Light scuffing to covers. Front endpaper is MISSING. Foxing to outer page edges. Light page browning. All plates present.

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THE BEDTIME BOOK
Written by Mrs. Ernest Ames. Illustrated by Mrs. Ernest Ames.
Stock no. 1313582
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1901. Good condition.

Large oblong book, 8 x 10". Cloth bound pictorial boards. Full page colour illus throughout accompanied by adaptations of well known nursery rhymes. Printed one side of paper only. 103 pages. Covers are edge worn with some slight loss of surface paper. Spine bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers have been replaced. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins/edges. Generally contents clean.

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LITTLE WHITE BARBARA
Written by Eleanor S. March.
Stock no. 1808883
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1902. Very good condition.

Small format. Printed to one side of pages only. Colour illustrations. 95 pages. Dumpy Book No. 18. Spine lightly browned. Pages have finger creasing and one or two grubby marks. Overall a lovely example.

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RAG, TAG, AND BOBTAIL
Written by Winifred Parnell. Illustrated by Edith Farmiloe.
Stock no. 2114422
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1899. Very good condition.

Large, oblong format. Green cloth spine with gilt title, pictorial front board. 30 full-page colour illustrations with a verse on the page opposite. Fading to spine and gilt to spine. Chipping and wear along cover edges; some marks and scuffing. Binding is still nice and tight. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Page browning; some foxing; a few grubby margin marks.

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THE OTHER SIDE
Written by G.G. Desmond. Illustrated by Percy Billinghurst.
Stock no. 1710342
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1903. Good condition.

Pictorial board. 4 Colour plates and other b/w illustrations. 196 pages. New endpapers. Tape residue mark to rear board. A few margin marks.

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