1. Burnett, Frances Hodgson / Jessie Willcox Smith.

In the Closed Room. Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton [Printed in the USA by “The McClure Press”], 1904. Octavo. Frontispiece, III, [1], 129 pages with 8 beautiful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover / original, beautifully illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spien and three coloured cover illustration. Interior in art nouveau style. One of the illustrations cleanly detached but still in very good condition (slightly frayed), one of the illustrations slightly detached. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some very minor and only very occasional staining to a few of the pages. Binding with some inor spotting to the rear board but very firm with the original artwork on endpapers and pastedown. Name of preowner on endpaper.

2. Dehn, Olive / Meldrum, Roy / Compton Mackenzie / Jean Margaret Hamilton / Madeleine Nightingale / et. al.

No. Fourteen [14] Joy Street. A Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls.

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, No Year [c.1930]. 18.3 cm x 24.8 cm. Frontispiece, 246 pages. Black and white and several tipped-in colour-illustrations. Illustrators include Harry Rountree, C.T.Nightingale, Maria Wolff, Mary Baker, Audrey Teago, Josephine Leslie etc. Original Hardcover. Decorative cloth boards. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Good+ condition. Binding a little shaky but holding with endpapers intact. Minor wear and rubbing to cover. Moderate foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pages throughout. Many previous owners names in ink to half-title and title pages. A few colour markings throughout. Pages separating from book block in places.

3. Des Salles, Héloïse.

The Adventures of Jonathan Seal. [Signed / Inscribed]

London, Jonathan Cape, 1948. Large Octavo. 55 pages with numerous illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Héloïse Des Salles on the halftitle. Rare !

4. Haslett, Caroline / Pares, Bip [Ethel Pares].

The Electrical Handbook for Women. Foreword by Sir John Snell. Edited for the Electrical Association for Women.

London, The English Universities Press Ltd., 1936. 8°. 428 pages. Hardcover with the rare, illustrated Art-Deco-Dustjacket by Bip Pares in protective Mylar. New and revised edition. Minor foxing only. Includes the folding map of the Central Electricity Board of the Grid Transmission Lines of England. Original cloth with original, illustrated dustjacket. The rare jacket, designed by Bip Pares, nearly complete, but torn and with some minor loss of paper to the rear endpaper.

5. Heward, Constance / Pearse, Susan Beatrice.

Ameliaranne at the Circus.

First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., no year (c. 1930). Small Octavo. 60 unnumbered pages with the extremely beautiful endpaper – illustrations. Original Hardcover with frontcover illustration. Binding fragile. Bookblock slightly detached. Two pages damaged with tear. Poor condition but still Rare !

6. Heward, Constance / Pearse, Susan Beatrice.

Ameliaranne Cinema Star.

First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., 1929. Small Octavo. 62 unnumbered pages with the extremely beautiful endpaper – illustrations fully intact. Original Hardcover with frontcover illustration. Binding firm but spine gone. One page slightly dogeared. A few minor stains. Rare !

7. Heward, Constance / Pearse, Susan Beatrice.

Ameliaranne in Town.

First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., 1931. Small Octavo. 60 unnumbered pages with the extremely beautiful endpaper – illustrations fully intact. Original Hardcover with frontcover illustration. Binding fragile. Two pages damaged with tear. Rare !

8. Potter, Beatrix.

Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes.

Third Printing – with “Ltd.” added to the publisher’s name. London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1919/1920]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 49 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket (Printed Price 3/6). Binding firm ! Frontispiece cleanly detached. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The jacket with some larger tear to the rear, some spotting and fraying (childrens drawing on the inside of the jacket).

9. Potter, Beatrix.

The Story of Miss Moppet.

London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1918]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 34 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, priceclipped dustjacket (Printed Price 5/net). Binding firm ! Excellent condition of the Volume itself with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this condition. Tiny blemish to the illustration of rear endpaper. “The Town Mouse” present in the listing of Potter publications on the endpaper, which dates this edition at 1918. The jacket with some minor wear only.

10. Potter, Beatrix.

The Tailor of Gloucester.

Later Edition. [1903 stated verso titlepage]. London / New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., no year [c. 1910]. 11 cm x 14,5 cm. Frontispiece, 85 pages. Original, illustrated Hardcover with illustrated original endpapers. Binding firm ! Stain to frontcover. Uper spine slightly damaged. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very good with very few signs of foxing. Front endpapers starting (see the images i took of front and rear endpapers !).