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The Fairy Book, a book of traditional fairytales written/translated by Dinah Maria Mulock and illustrated by Warwick Goble, was published in 1923 by Macmillan and Co. It had 16 full colour illustrations.

Little Red-Riding-Hood

The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood

Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper

The Adventures of John Dietrich

Beauty and the Beast

Jack The Giant Killer

Tom Thumb

Snow-White and Rose-Red

Jack and the Bean-Stalk

The Iron Stove

Puss In Boots

The White Cat

Little Snowdrop

The Blue Bird

The Six Swans

The Juniper Tree

These cards are for use with the Augmented Reality games on the Nintendo 3DS. They were released in 2011.

You can enlarge them by clicking on them, if you wish. Also playing the games so they look like they are coming out of the monitor is quite good fun, and basically pointless.

If someone with both a 3DS and a new iPad could open these on the iPad and then put that down on their desk and use that as the card to play the AR games on the 3DS, possibly while someone else videos on it on a nearby iPhone,  it would probably be the greatest conjunction of technology ever witnessed. All while a Guardian journalist liveblogs the event.

These editions of these three books were published in 199o and 1991 by Fontana. The cover illustrations are uncredited, but might well be by Clive Barker as well.

The best things in these books are the photos of Clive Barker inside the back covers, where he gets slightly more groomed with every passing year.

I also like this illustration in the inside cover of The Great And Secret Show

And I don’t really know what to make of the terrifying cover to Nightbreed that’s advertised in there at all.

These are two sets of footballers top trumps from about 1980. The players are mostly from the the old English First Division, with a few high profile British footballers that played abroad thrown in, too. And Stan Bowles. There were 32 cards in each pack.

These packs have been so thoroughly mixed up over the years that I can’t tell you which cards were in which pack, I’m afraid, and I’ve lost the title cards and the rules. Now we’ll never know how to play.

I am truly sorry.

The Terror Cubes was a science fiction book written by Granville Wilson and published by Granada in 1982. The cover was illustrated by Alan Craddock and the book itself was illustrated by Paul Turner.

I haven’t read this book, unfortunately, and have been informed that it is actually “a bit dull”, but the illustrations are absolutely amazing, and not dull at all, so now I don’t know what to think.

Thanks to Phil Alderman for sending me these.