London: Max Parrish, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 180pp. Rebound by library, with cream endpapers. Front endpapers show faint traces of removed library labels. Small neat circular library stamp to half title page, and there is a slightly roughened patch to the head of the title page where there may have..... More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. first edition. Hardcover. 139pp, including full-page illustrations in blue, and small illustrations in line at the end of each chapter. Contents clean and firm, with no creases, and with faint smudges to a few margins. Faint tanning to endpapers, neat name to fep. In the..... More

London: Religious Tract Society / R.T.S., n.d. [c.1911]. J. MacFarlane. Probable first printing. Hardcover. 350pp +[18] ads. The title page is printed in colour on glossy paper, and the colour frontis is tissue-guarded; there are two further colour plates (all called for) in the text. Small stain at pp.14/15 (and..... More

London: D.C. Thomson & Co., 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970. Comic. 32pp each, 12 x 8.5 ins. Collection carefully looked after, kept flat, and clean inside, but with some browning or foxing to front covers. Very little fraying and few bent corners. Puzzles not done. One story coloured in neatly to..... More

London: The Epworth Press, J. Alfred Sharp, 1927. Reprint. Hardcover. 230pp +[1] adverts, with many illustrations in the text, plus the 12 colour plates. With the author's signed 1941 gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Contents clean and fresh. Both front and back endpapers have small corner stains from..... More

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 'printed 1920'. Hardcover. 256pp, with a colour frontis, illustrations in line, and pictorial endpapers of desultory children by a different artist. Children's story, set in British India, and Billy is an English girl. 1932 presentation note to front endpaper, with Sunday School Award label..... More

London: Cape, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. 304pp, with map endpapers and a frontis. Contents clean and unmarked. Closed top edge faintly peppered. In the original binding of blue textured boards, spine titled in gilt: clean and bright, corners sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket by Pat Marriott, of which..... More

London: Collins, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp, with many illustrations in line. Contents very clean and in good order: plus (or except that) the illustration on p.13 has been tastefully coloured-in with watercolour (see photo). Minor bubbling to pastedowns. In the original binding of pale green cloth, faded to top..... More

London: Frederick Muller, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 151pp. Front free endpaper bears a 1943 gift inscription from Frederick Muller, the publisher. Contents very clean and fresh. In original binding of beige cloth lettered in red. Bright and firm, spine ends crimped. In protected unclipped pictorial dustjacket: with several internal..... More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1925]. First Rackham Edition. Hardcover. x, 227pp, with pictorial endpapers, 4 colour plates, and 16 drawings in line. Contents clean and unmarked, with some tanning to endpapers. Quarto, in the original binding of blue cloth, decorated and titled in gilt; boards clean, bright and firm, with..... More

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 336pp, with the four monochrome plates. Surface mark to edge of front endpaper. Contents clean and firm with negligible soiling to a few pages. In the original tan pictorial cloth titled in brown and blocked in green and black: slightly rubbed..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. (viii), 168pp, plus 8 plates in monochrome. Upper corners creased at p.5 & p.7. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original pictorial ochre cloth, strikingly blocked in white, blue, black and red: front bright, with one minor mark, spine rather..... More