Front endpaper renewed. Coloured frontispiece and six black and white illustrations. Pictorial dustwrapper has old sellotape marks at top of spine and at bottom of back plus a small piece missing from bottom front. Book has pale blue binding with dark blue lettering and decoration. Book itself is V/G.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Cream cloth-covered boards with light brown lettering.
Picture onlay to front cover.
18cm x 23.5cm.
A story in verse about mice, with a poem facing a picture on every page.
Covers are soiled, and bumped at corners and spine ends.
Contents have pulled away from binding at both front and back.
Gift inscription on front endpaper, some largely erased pencil scribble.
Frontispiece and one other plate slightly damaged, last plate creased, remaining nine plates in very good condition.
One page of text has been torn through and roughly mended with paper tape.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Orange covers.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Black and white frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Writing on front pastedown.
Front endpaper missing.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Blue covers with black lettering and decoration.
Colour frontispiece and title page.
Line drawings in text.
Covers worn and a little marked.
Spine faded.
Front inner hinge cracked.
Prize label on front paste-down.
Pages tanned.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
dark blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Gilt blocked lettering on spine.
117 pages.
Colour frontispiece and title picture.
Body of book illustrated in black and white.
The giants of the title are sins which must be vanquished.
Covers clean, binding tight.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Grey, decorated boards.
Picture onlay front cover.
Colour frontispiece present.
Other plates missing.
Front hinge cracked.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Covers worn at edges and a little scuffed.
Frontispiece missing.
VG in other respects.
Undated; first story titled "Wanted, a Highwayman".
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
160 pages.
Colour frontispiece plus two b/w plates.
Light wear to covers.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Some fingermarking on prelims.
Several line drawings have been neatly painted.
Light spotting throughout.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Mauve pictorial paper-covered boards.
Green cloth spine.
Covers edgeworn.
Bottom 2cm of spine missing.
Two names on frontispiece.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Green cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
256 pages.
Colour frontispiece by C. Leslie, no other illustrations.
Dustwrapper chipped, and rather baggy.
Covers clean.
Prize label on front endpaper, dated 1938.
Contents clean and white.
One section (pages 149 - 156) present, but has pulled away from the binding.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Duodecimo.
Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and red and yellow deocration.
122 pages.
Illustrated with engravings, also head and tailpieces at beginning and end of chapters.
Covers worn, and soiled in places.
Front endpaper missing, both inner hinges cracked, have been strengthened with tape.
Occasional fingermarking, but in general contents are clean and tight.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 0749618507.
Pop-ups and mechanisms in working order.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Red paper-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
277 pages.
Colour frontispiece.
Black and white line drawings in text.
Dustwrapper edge chipped.
Strip 6cm x 2cm torn from top edge of lower panel
Prize presentation on front paste down.
ontents clean and unmarked.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Orange covers.
Colour frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Covers a little discoloured with a few signs of wear at spine ends.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 0907197000.
Quarto.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
No. 1904 of a limited edition of 2600 copies.
Light wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Book itself fine.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Light blue cloth-covered boards with brown and green floral decoration.
Gilt lettering on spine.
128 pages.
Black and white frontispiece.
Decorated capitals.
Neat dedication on reverse of frontis.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Grey spine.
Picture on upper board by Caroline Hall.
Colour frontispiece by Mabel Spurrier.
Eight other full page colour illustrations.
Black and white drawings in the text.
These and the stories and poems are all by different artists and authors.
Covers close to Fine.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper (book dated from this).
Contents clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Orange cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
250 pages.
Black and white frontispiece by J. H. Hartley.
40 pages of adverts at rear of book.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Label partially removed from from front paste down.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Red cloth covers.
Overall decorative pattern in brown, lettering in brown.
Coloured frontispiece.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Blue cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering and decoration on covers.
184 pages.
Black and white frontispiece.
Spine faded.
Page edges foxed.
Pages tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 0006730515.
Paperback.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Green decorated boards.
Frontispiece missing.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Some spotting to prelims and foredge.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Crown Library.
Coloured frontispiece.
Dustwrapper chipped and creased, book itself generally VG.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

'The Stephen Southwold Tales'.
Dark green boards with gilt lettering and decorations.
Colour frontispiece.
Black and white illustrations in text.
Slight wear to edges of covers.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Some foxing to prelims, and a few fingermarks to contents.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Red paper-covered boards.
Black lettering on spine.
176 pages.
Black and white frontispiece.
Covers unevenly faded and slightly soiled.
Gift dedication on front endpaper.
Pages tanned.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)