1. Manning-Sanders, Ruth.

A Book of Giants. Text illustrations by Robin Jacques.

London, Pan Books Ltd., 1972. 12.5 x 19cm. 126 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear, spine sunned. [A Piccolo Book].

2. Borrelli, Mario / Thorne, Anthony.

A Street Lamp and the Stars – The Autobiography of Don Borrelli of Naples. Written with the help of Anthony Thorne.

London, Peter Davies Ltd., 1963. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece (Black and White Photograph “Priest as Vagabond”), 206 pages. 22 black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor discolouration to endpapers only.

3. Mair, L.P. / [Lucy Philip Mair].

An African People in the Twentieth Century.

Frontispiece, XV, 300 pages. 8 illustrations. Map near front. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1934. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 300 pages with Index. Eight monochrome plates including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front pastedown carries bookplate / Exlibris of Charles P Groves.

4. Warner, Priscilla M.

Biddy Christmas.

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1948. 14 x 20.5cm. (Frontispiece), 205 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Some signs of wear to dustjacket, slightly foxed edges, otherwise in very good condition with boards and spine solid and clean.

5. Duffy, Joe.

Children of the Rising – The untold story of the young lives lost during Easter 1916.

Dublin, Hachette Books Ireland, 2015. 25 cm. xxiii, 263 pages with illustrations throughout the publication. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Seidel, Ina.

Das wunderbare Geißleinbuch – Neue Geschichten für Kinder, die die alten Märchen gut kennen. Mit 20 Textbildern und 10 Vollbildern von Wilhelm Schulz.

Stuttgart / Gotha, Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1925. Quarto (19 cm x 25,5 cm). 66 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Halbleinenband mit illustriertem Einbanddeckel. Bindung minimal wasserrandig. Private Widmung auf dem Vorsatzblatt. Sonst sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

7. Sutcliff, Rosemary.

Dragon Slayer: The Story of Beowulf. With drawings and cover design by Charles Keeping.

London, Penguin Books / The Bodley Head, 1972. 11 x 18cm. 108 pages, with black and white illustrations throughout. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [A Puffin Book].

8. Farrar, Frederic W.

Eric, or, Little by Little. A Tale of Roslyn School. With an Introduction by John Rowe Townsend.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1971, 14.5 cm x 22.2 cm. 288 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor fading to upper and lower outer hardcover. Foxing and fading to edges and both endpapers. Fading to spine of dustjacket and minor fraying. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen’s Translator Erik Haugaard.

9. Sale, Roger.

Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White.

Cambridge / London, Harvard University Press, 1978. 15.5 x 23cm. (6), 280 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, including creasing and slight lean to spine. Numerous text annotations. [A Harvard Paperback].

10. Haviland, Virginia / Danska, Herbert.

Favourite Fairy Tales Told In Russia. Retold from Russian Storytellers by Virginia Haviland. Illustrated by Herbert Danska.

London / Sydney / Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1967. 17 x 24cm. 88 pages, with colour illustrations throughout. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket. Some signs of wear to dustjacket, including minor paper loss to edges. Otherwise in good condition. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.