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TIMOTHY
Written by Elizabeth Ramal. Illustrated by Irene Hawkins.
Stock no. 1328694
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Yellow cloth, blue titles and vignette. Illustrated endpapers. Lovely colour and b/w lithograph illustrations throughout. 47 pages. 8.5 x 6.25". Spine and corners bumped, some fading to spine. Wrapper is well worn and a bit grubby, most of wrapper spine is missing, what remains is very fragile.

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ONE DAY ON BEETLE ROCK
Written by Sally Carrighar. Illustrated by Eileen Mayo.
Stock no. 1328693
Published by Pleiades Books Ltd.. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

What happens to the whole animal community of Beetle Rock, in the High Sierra, during one typical day. Blue cloth, gilt titles. 152 pages. B/w plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Pencil writing to front free-endpaper has been erased. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped and a little grubby.

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THE ALMOST ALL-WHITE RABBITY CAT
Written by Meindert Dejong. Illustrated by H.B. Vestal.
Stock no. 1328689
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A story about a remarkable cat and the remarkable people who lived in her apartment building; a happy book written by a master storyteller. Orange boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. Full page b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0718819985. Spine bumped. Foxing to endpapers and a musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and foxed on verso.

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THE EASTER CAT
Written by Meindert Dejong. Illustrated by Mary Dinsdale.
Stock no. 1328688
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st UK 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 110 pages. Family tensions interwoven with Millicent's longing for a cat of her own. ISBN: 0718818776. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to prelims and to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, grubby to rear panel and has a "Lutterworth Children's Author" sticker to front panel.

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SCRUFFY THE LITTLE BLACK HEN
Written by Cicely Englefield. Illustrated by Cicely Englefield.
Stock no. 1328683
Published by John Murray. 1st 1948. Almost very good condition.

White pictorial boards. Lovely colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers are a bit grubby and marked, spine browned and rubbed. Price cut from lower corner of front free-endpaper. Contents clean.

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THE EXTRAORDINARY TUG-OF-WAR
Written by Letta Schatz. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1328680
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1969. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. Oblong format. Full page colour illustrations. Hippopotamus tugged and Elephant tugged. The rope grew tighter - but nothing happened! ISBN: 0370015037. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Foxing to textblock but contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn with large tears and slight loss.

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RUBY
Written by Michael Emberley. Illustrated by Michael Emberley.
Stock no. 1328669
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Ruby is a small but determined mouse in a red cloak and she sets out to deliver a batch of triple-cheese pies to her granny... Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0316888591. Spine and spine edges of wrapper are sunned.

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BORKA THE ADVENTURES OF A GOOSE WITH NO FEATHERS
Written by John Burningham. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1328662
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st thus 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

50th Anniversary Edition. Large format. Green cloth with gilt titles and vignette to front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780857550835. Some light/faint spotting to covers. Contents fine.

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ROMANY WOOD
Written by Beshlie; David Walser. Illustrated by Beshlie.
Stock no. 1328644
Published by Hart-Davis Educational Limited. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Beshlie lives the life of a gypsy, roaming the countryside in a caravan and studying nature at first hand. She transfers her observations into pictures which are an absolute delight. Pale green boards. Unpaginated. 10 x 7.5 ins. ISBN: 029812047X. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Pale browning to page edges. Dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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ALWAYS AND FOREVER
Written by Alan Durant. Illustrated by Debi Gliori.
Stock no. 1328626
Published by Doubleday. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. In their hears and their memories and their laughter, Fox was still there...always and forever. ISBN: 038560503X. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Spine of wrapper is sunned.

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THE CAT NEXT DOOR
Written by Birsa Shepard. Illustrated by Pelagie Doane.
Stock no. 1328601
Published by The Children's Book Club. 1946. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth spine, blue boards with black titles. B/w illustrations. 64 pages. Mollie rescues some kittens! Spine slightly bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and foxed, wear with minimal loss to spine and some fading.

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APPLEY DAPPLY'S NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1328544
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1917. Very good condition.

Small format. Green boards with red lettering. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 52 numbered pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Some light page browning, fingering and other marks to generally clean contents.

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