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THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.
Stock no. 2139414
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

Specially rebound in modern green leather binding, with raised bands to spine, title blocks, with gilt titles and decorations. Marbled endpapers. All edges are marbled. Numerous b/w illustrations. Wear and chipping to leather on spine and edges. Some scuffing. Front joint is partially cracked in a few places. Inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Soem foxing and browning.

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MEMOIRS OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY HAVELOCK, K.C.B.
Written by John Clark Marshman.
Stock no. 2138555
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1890. Good condition.

New edition. Red cloth with silver titles and decorations. Splits to sides of spine with fraying to cloth and wear; a little loss. Foxing and browning throughout. A reading copy.

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THE HARE
Written by H.A. MacPherson; Gerald Lascelles; Charles Richardson; J.S. Gibbons; G.H. Longman; Kenney Herbert. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn; Charles Whymper; et al..
Stock no. 2136038
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1896. Very good condition.

Fur and Feather series. Beige pictorial cloth with red titles. B/w plates. Natural History, Shooting, Coursing, and Cookery. Foxing throughout. Some page edges are not fully opened.

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SNIPE AND WOODCOCK
Written by L.H. De Visme Shaw; Richard J. Ussher; Alexander Innes Shand. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn; Charles Whymper.
Stock no. 2136036
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1903. Almost very good condition.

Fur, Feather & Fin series. Beige pictorial boards, red and gilt titles. B/w plates. With chapters on Snipe and Woodcock in Ireland by Ussher; Cookery by Shand. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Damp staining to prelims and top of page edges.

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THE PHEASANT
Written by Alfred E.T. Watson; H.A. MacPherson; A.J. Stuart-Wortley; Alexander Innes Shand. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn.
Stock no. 2136035
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1895. Very good condition.

Fur and Feather Series edited by Alfred E.T. Watson. Includes Natural History of the Pheasant by Rev. H.A. MacPherson; Shooting the Pheasant by A.J. Stuart-Wortey; Cookery of the Pheasant by Alexander Innes Shand. 265 pages, plus 24 page booklist to rear. B/w illustrations. Browning to spine; some marks to covers. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges and some page margins.

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THE GROUSE
Written by H.A. MacPherson; A.J. Stuart-Wortley; George Saintsbury. Illustrated by A.J. Stuart-Wortley; Archibald Thorburn.
Stock no. 2136034
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1894. Almost very good condition.

Fur and Feather Series. Beige pictorial cloth, red and gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Small damp stain to bottom corner of rear cover. Foxing and browning throughout. A couple of page edges are uncut.

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THE FOX
Written by Thomas F. Dale; Alfred E.T. Watson. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn; G.D. Giles.
Stock no. 2136032
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1906. Very good condition.

Fur, Feather and Fin Series. Pictorial cloth with red titles. 8 b/w plates. A few marks to covers; some bumping to spine. Some foxing and browning.

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THE PARTRIDGE
Written by H.A. MacPherson; A.J. Stuart-Wortley; George Saintsbury.
Stock no. 2136031
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 2nd 1894. Almost very good condition.

Fur and Feather series. Second edition. B/w plates. Bumping and wear to spine and corner. Browning to spine. Some pages/edges are unopened. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Some foxing throughout book and to outer page edges.

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AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE OLD STONE CROSSES OF SOMERSET
Written by Charles Pooley.
Stock no. 2135764
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. Circa 1877. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth, gilt titles and decorations. B/w illustrations and lithographic plates. Bumping to spine and corners. 1" split to top of spine, with small piece of cloth missing. Some foxing throughout.

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THE TALE OF BABI MONKEY
Written by Valerie Magill. Illustrated by C.H.G. Moorhouse.
Stock no. 1321782
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1948. Almost very good condition.

White boards with picture to front. Colour illustrations throughout. Covers slightly browned and foxed, some wear and slight loss of backing paper to spine. Musty smell to contents. Finger creases to contents. Crease to top corner of last couple of pages. Where the edge of the title-page is bound at the back of the book there is a small piece missing to the bottom.

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THE GOLLIWOGG IN WAR!
Written by Bertha Upton. Illustrated by Florence Upton.
Stock no. 1320555
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial front board. Oblong format. 8.5 x 11". Wonderful colour illustrations throughout. Covers are edge worn with slight loss of surface paper at corners. Covers grubby with a pink mark to top edge of front cover. Spine bumped and slightly rubbed. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Joints cracked. Small margin tears to some pages. Grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD
Written by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick. Illustrated by E. Caldwell.
Stock no. 1320480
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1907. Very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles and vignettes. Colour frontis. B/w plates and text illustrations. 474 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some slight scuffing to cloth. Name and address in ink to half title-page. Endpapers browned. Page 35/6 has lower corner torn off (slight loss to margin illustrations only, not text). A few light foxspots to contents. A nice copy of the first issue of the first edition (first issue points present: dung beetle is shown to be pushing dung with front legs on pgs 65, 337 & 457 and horse is being dragged up a vertical cliff on pg 316).

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