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SLEEPY TIME TALES OF CANDYTOP CASTLE
Written by Sheila Hodgetts.
Stock no. 446209
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1958. Very good condition.

New Five-minute bedtime stories. Small oblong format. Card wraps. Two-tone illustrations. Ink number to front cover. Covers are grubby. Small stain to inside front cover. Pages browned.

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THE NEW BIG NODDY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 818955
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; D.V. Publications Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red cloth spine. Pink pictorial glazed boards showing Noddy in his aeroplane. Colour illustrations. Big Noddy Book No. 8. Insription in ink to half-title page. Coulouring page neatly completed in crayon. Wrapper has large closed tear to front panel, 1/2 loss to base of spine.

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RUPERT AND THE PRINCESS
Written by Mary Tourtel. Illustrated by Mary Tourtel.
Stock no. 817102
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1927. Slightly better than very good condition.

Third title of six in the Rupert Little Bear series. Light brown decorative front board with large colour pictorial onlay. Brown cloth spine with black title. Plain endpapers. Rear board plain. Pages printed in red, blue or brown with one illustration to each page. Front cover edges slightly darkened and rubbed. Corners very slightly worn. Slight discolouration to rear board. Small faded spot at base of spine. Lengthy inscription in ink by original owner, dated April 12th 1928, describing a motor journey from Felixstowe to London where this book was purchased. Contents beautifully bright and clean. A lovely copy of this rare early Rupert book.

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RUPERT THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY
Written by Mary Tourtel.
Stock no. 817035
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1949. Good condition.

The second (and last) in the Rupert's Famous Yellow Library series. Yellow and black Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations throughout. 24 pages Covers have been taped (at once were detached from contents). Page 7 has large closed tear. Surface damage to bottom of rear cover.

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RUPERT, THE MANIKIN AND THE BLACK KNIGHT - RUPERT LITTLE BEAR LIBRARY No. 18 (WOOLWORTH)
Written by Mary Tourtel. Illustrated by Mary Tourtel.
Stock no. 816921
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Nearly fine condition.

Yellow glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. 62 pages. ISBN: 0361029608. Covers clean and bright. Small blue ink mark to title page else contents clean. A very nice copy.

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THE NEW BIG NODDY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Peter Wienk.
Stock no. 381585
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The eighth big Noddy book. Large format. Red cloth spine, pink pictorial boards show Noddy in an aeroplane. First story is "A Horrid Little Trick". Colour illustrations throughout. Spine slightly bumped. Cover edges lightly rubbed. Colouring page of Noddy and Tessie Bear has been completed with crayons. Some light fingering and foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, faded to spine and a bit grubby, ink doodles to front panel of wrapper.

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THE TWELFTH HOLIDAY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Weink; Grace Lodge; Yvonne Perrin; et al..
Stock no. 806236
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth spine with gilt title, pale blue boards with gilt title and vignette to front. Colour plates and text illustrations. 156 pages. First story is "One Christmas Eve". Light wear to cover edges. Name and address in ink to half-title page. Dot-to-dot on page 73 completed. Page 96/97 have some surface paper damage. It looks like at one time, the pages got a little damp and the pages were stuck together next to spine. Now some of page 97 (illustration page) has stuck to edges of page 96, making a 1" hole in illustration, so affecting illustration to verso of page 97. Rest of contents are excellent. Pictorial wrapper is a little edge-torn and chipped, with only a couple of small chips of loss.

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NODDY AND THE MAGIC RUBBER
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Peter Wienk; Robert Tyndall.
Stock no. 596670
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; Dennis Dobson Ltd.. Circa 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Noddy Series No. 9. Peach pictorial boards with black outline titles to spine and front cover. Colour illustrations throughout. 60 pages. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Grubby black marks to front pastedownErased name in belongs to box. Grubby margin marks to pages internally. Pictorial wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with a coupel of small patches of loss and some grubby marks.

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WHEN TIMOTHY CAME TO STAY
Written by Ann Verrent.
Stock no. 626996
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Jane was very happy, because her little baby brother was too small to play with her. A Play-With_Me book. 'Make everything swing to and fro so Timothy plays with Jane'. A moveable book. Pictorial boards, colour illustrations. Corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean, moveables in excellent condition.

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THE THIRD HOLIDAY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Hilda Boswell; Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 593732
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Orange boards, green cloth spine. Coloured pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. 192 pages. 10 x 7.5 inches. Inscription in ink to verso of half-title page. Wrapper torn with loss and internally repaired with tape.

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NODDY'S CASTLE OF BOOKS
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 591408
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; C.A. Publications Ltd.. Very good condition.

Five small format paperwrap books contained in shaped pictorial slipcase with opening doors at front. B/w illustrations. A few small edge-tears to cover edges. Some foxing and a few illustrations have been coloured in. Contained in a very good original shaped card case with has some edge-wear and a bit of creasing.

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THE MODERN WORLD BOOK OF HOBBIES
No author listed.
Stock no. 588346
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Corners worn.

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