London: Frederick Warne, 'Now and Then' Juvenile series (New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong), [c.1875]. Hardcover. 96pp. At each opening there is a short tale in large print, facing the picture which illustrates it. Many of the images are striking, and many of the stories are intriguing, whether fantastic, domestic... More about Alice's New Book. And Other Tales. With Forty-Seven Page Illustrations.

D.C. Thompson and John Leng, n.d. Original edition. Hardcover. The second Bunty book. 124pp, plus the pictorial story endpapers: colour illustrated throughout. Contents fresh, clean and unmarked but for faint traces of erased pencil to flower quiz and to corner of front endpaper. First story: Cinderella of the Orphanage. Quarto..... More about Bunty for girls (cover title: Bunty. The Book for Girls). [1961]

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 issue 425. As a lot. More about Judy [Girls' comic] 'Picture-stories, plus features for girls': 12 odd issues: numbers 406, 413,...

London: J. Harris and Son, n.d. [c.1825]. Early edition. Hardcover. The title page, followed by the 69 hand-coloured stipple engravings in facing pairs. Some soiling or toning up to p.10, thereafter generally clean. The missing blank corner of the last page has been made good. 1848 ownership name to the... More about Marmaduke Multiply's Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians: or, the Multiplication Table,...

London: Printed at the Catnach Press by W.S. Fortey, n.d. [?1870-1885?]. First or early edition. Pamphlet. Chapbook, 8pp, 25x18.5cms, illustrated with cuts. Includes: [The] Drunkard's Looking Glass, The Tree of Dissipation, Close the Alehouse Door, alphabet rhymes, Good Drinks for Good Children, The Life of a Drunkard, The Drunkard's Dream..... More about The New Temperance Primer.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. First printing with Robinson illustrations. Hardcover. 269pp, with text illustrations in line, a colour frontis, and pictorial endpapers. Extremely bright and fresh throughout. The original owner's home-made bookmark was found at p256-7, where it has left a thin line down the gutter, and a faint... More about Once on a time.

Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, 1974. First edition, first impression. Paperback. 276, (4) adverts: with many illustrations in line by Pat Marriott. Slight puckering and faint browning to top edges of pages: but this is an unread copy, and the contents are otherwise very fresh and unmarked. Green and brown on spine... More about All But a Few.

London: Granada, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 94pp. As new unread copy from storage. Contents fresh, in textured green binding, spine titled in silver: all very bright, clean and sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: fresh, bright, crisp, as new. More about The Quicksilver Horse.

London: Edward Ward, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 64pp, with more than a hundred illustrations in the text, plus a colour frontis and two colour plates (total three of the four called for). Contents generally very clean and in good order, but a few pages have a small spot or two... More about Monty Woodpig and his Bubblebuzz Car.

England: A Tower Press Product [No. 820], n.d. [c.1950?]. Presumed first and only edition. Card book. Tall stapled booklet, 7.2 x 3.9 ins: [10]pp, (4 coloured) in coloured card covers, with transfers laid in. The story, 'Mickey's Painting' - illustrated in line, and a sendup of modern art - runs... More about Mickey Mouse: A Story Book with Transfers.

London: John F. Shaw, n.d. [c.1932]. Presumed first edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto edition, 10 x 7.5ins. [192]pp, with line illustrations and 12 very good colour plates. 1932 adult gift inscription to back of frontis: contents otherwise very clean and fresh, with some foxing to the title page and a few... More about Mother's Bible Stories.

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 about Where the Blue Begins.

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 about The Imp and the Angel.