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WHY-SO STORIES OF BIRDS & BEASTS FROM FOLK-LORE & LEGEND
Written by Edwin Gile Rich. Illustrated by Charles Copeland; Ernest A. Aris; et al..
Stock no. 1321014
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1934. Almost very good condition.

Orange cloth spine. Pictorial front board showing rabbit with a noose round neck of a duck (plate repeated inside). 4 colour plates. B/w text illustrations. 120 pages. Covers are edge worn. Spine bumped and grubby, rear cover is rubbed and grubby. Page browning and foxing to textblock.

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THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOES
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
Stock no. 1320960
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1982. Very good condition.

A Just So Story. Green pictorial glazed boards. Red endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. 31 pages. 9.5 x 7". ISBN: 0333341384. Slight fading to spine and cover edges. Some foxing to contents.

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ANIMAL PLAYTIME
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain; Harry B. Neilson; J.A. Shepherd; et al..
Stock no. 1320518
Published by James Clarke & Co.. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Pictorial boards. Front cover shows Fox with cockrel. B/w illustrations throughout. Some cats by Wain. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Front cover illustration is still bright. Some slight chipping of paper covering to spine. Small binding error of crease in paper to rear cover. Inscription in ink to verso of title-page (dated 1909) and one name crossed out and replaced with another. Some slight foxing and fingering to contents. Light tobacco smell to contents.

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DEEP WOOD
Written by Elleston Trevor. Illustrated by David Williams.
Stock no. 1320475
Published by Gerald G. Swan. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A friendly sort of book, about Old Stripe (the badger) and his home beneath the Beech Tree, his friends, Potter, Scruff the Fox, Skip Squirrel, and other animal folk who live among quiet woodland paths, old gnarled trees, grassy banks, and the rippling stream. Green cloth. Gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 160 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some light browning to top and tail of spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Small brown mark to rear pastedown. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tape repairs on verso, some creases and rear panel slightly grubby.

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AMONG ANIMALS
Written by Manfred Kyber; Olive Fishwick.
Stock no. 1320459
Published by Centaur Press Ltd. 1st thus 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The collected animal stories of Kyber, 1880-1933. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 206 pages. Translated from the German by Fishwick. ISBN: 0900000007. Spine slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine with a few small tears at edges.

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THE ADVENTURES OF TOMMY TITMOUSE
Written by Reginald Harrison. Illustrated by Reginald Harrison.
Stock no. 1320452
Published by A. & C. Black Ltd.. 1st 1940. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Small format. Buff boards with black titles and blue Titmouse vignette to front cover. 60 pages. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations throughout. Boards are a little warped. Some light foxing. Dustwrapper is grubby with light stains. Loss to wrapper edges and to lower half of spine, extensive tape repairs on verso of wrapper.

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FIFTEEN RABBITS
Written by Felix Salten; Whittaker Chambers. Illustrated by Sheila Dunn.
Stock no. 1320449
Published by The Commodore Press. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, dark green title to spine. Translated by Whittaker Chambers. Numerous b/w illustrations, 192 pages. Spine and corners bumped, slight fading at base of spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some loss, large tear to rear panel has been tape repaired on verso.

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THORNTREE MEADOWS
Written by Roger Nett. Illustrated by John Nash.
Stock no. 1320445
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A pig, a hippo and an aardvark and their adventures. Red boards, black title to spine. Two colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Covers a little warped. A few tiny foxspots to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with heavy foxing.

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HARRY HEDGEHOG OF BUTTERCUP BANK
Written by Winifred Hunt. Illustrated by Joan Rickaby.
Stock no. 1320442
Published by Blandford Press Ltd.. Circa 1947. Good condition.

Small, oblong format. Red cloth spine, green pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 47 pages. Covers are edge rubbed. Spine slightly bumped. Prize plate to front pastedown and some ink writing. Joints were broken and have been repaired with masking tape. First page (frontis) is badly creased and torn with slight loss at lower edges (and a tape repair). Some light foxing to contents. Contents are well fingered with light marks at margins.

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TEN TALES WITHOUT A TITLE
Written by Edith Carrington. Illustrated by W. Weekes.
Stock no. 1320425
Published by Griffith Farran & Co.. Good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board showing a variety of animals looking at Raven on fence. 10 colour (chromolithograph) plates plus b/w text illustrations. 212 pages. Professionally re-backed, new spine bumped at head and tail. Covers are worn and grubby, some surface paper loss. New endpapers. Grubby fingermarks and foxing to contents. Lower corner of last page torn off (no text missing).

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LES AVENTURES D'UNE SOURIS VERTE
Written by Benjamin Rabier. Illustrated by Benjamin Rabier.
Stock no. 1320065
Published by Garnier Freres. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth spine, yellow pictorial boards. Colour and two-tone illustrations throughout. 32 pages. Text in French. Spine is slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents are browned.

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THE DOG THAT WENT TO FAIRYLAND
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1319928
Published by The Brockhampton Book Co. Ltd.. 1st 1944. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format, 7.25 x 8.75". Blue pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. An Enid Blyton Picture Book. Covers are slightly warped. Wear to spine ends and a couple of small worn patches at cover edges. Corners slightly bumped. Printed price(?) has been scratched off front pastedown. Some light fingering but contents generally clean.

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