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THE GREAT MAGICIAN!
Written by Robert Tyndall; P. Bolsover.
Stock no. 588873
1st 1963. Very good condition.

Book three in the Trumpy Tales Series. Shaped pictorial card-wraps. Colour illustrations. Flap to front cover is creased and a little fragile. Some rusting to staples internally. Pages are bright.

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SHAGGY AND SPOTTY
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by David Lucas.
Stock no. 738107
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1997. Very good condition.

The two dogs (Shaggy and Spotty) set off for the fair - for the jollity, the music, the shouting and excitement... Pictorial glazed boards. Large colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. 9.5 x 9.5". ISBN: 0571190871. Spine bumped, a few small dents to cover edges. Front cover is light discoloured. Some light marking to endpapers else contents fine.

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FURRY TAILS
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 738080
Published by Andersen Press Ltd.. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

A bumper book of ten favourite animal tales retold and illustrated by Ross. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0862649269. Minimal bumping to corners. Some light fingering to page margins else contents fine.

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TALES OF WAYBEYOND
Written by Eileen Hunter. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Stock no. 737942
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, green title to spine. B/w illustrations, 87 pages. ISBN: 0233970843. Minimal bumping to spine. Child's name in ink to title-page else contents fine. Green pictorial wrapper is just a little edge rubbed.

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FUR COATS AND FEATHER FROCKS
Written by Clifton Bingham; Edith E. Cuthell; Edric Vredenburg; et al. Illustrated by W. Foster; et al..
Stock no. 737967
Published by Ernest Nister. 1st 1892. Very good condition.

Contains short stories and verse about animals. De-Luxe Edition with red pictorial cloth and gilt title to front cover. 24 chromolithograph plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers ever so slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing to contents, mainly to margins and some grubby fingermarks but generally contents are clean.

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TABBYKINS AND HIS FRIENDS
Written by G.D. Rowlandson. Illustrated by G.D. Rowlandson.
Stock no. 626773
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Warne's Cosy Corner Books series. A story for children. Green cloth spine, cream boards, green titles & vignette to front. Blue & red pictorial endpapers. Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Some hinges pulled, a few margin marks. Pictorial wrapper is worn & torn with loss, strengthened with clear tape, spine strengthened to verso with white paper.

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ROSIE AND TORTOISE
Written by Margaret Wild. Illustrated by Ron Brooks.
Stock no. 586955
Published by Ted Smart. Circa 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. A wise and tender book about welcoming a new baby into the family. ISBN: 0670889601. Pictorial wrapper is edge-creased.

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SUSIE AND ALFRED IN THE NIGHT OF THE PAPER BAG MONSTERS.
Written by Helen Craig. Illustrated by Helen Craig.
Stock no. 586927
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1985. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. SIGNED by author on title page. A couple of corners are lightly bumped.

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UNCLE REMUS OR THE STORY OF MR. FOX AND BRER RABBIT
Written by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by Harry Rountree; Rene Bull.
Stock no. 737200
Published by Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Limited. Circa 1942. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Very large format (12.5 x 10"). Beige cloth with brown and red title and colour illustration to front. With twelve tissue-guarded colour plates by Rountree and eighty-four pen and ink text illustrations by Bull. A wonderful edition of this classic story. Spine and corners bumped. A dozen or so pinholes to rear cover (a couple of which penetrate the last few pages). Inscription in ink to front endpaper (dated 1942). Light foxing to endpapers. Contents clean. Green wrapper (with pictorial onlay to front) is edge creased with tears at corners which are repaired with magic tape on verso, creasing to top edge of rear panel and the same pinholes affecting the rear cover. Very slight loss at corners. A nice copy of this attractive but scarce edition.

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A LITTLE CHAFF
Written by Margaret Lavington. Illustrated by Helen Urquhart.
Stock no. 737072
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1919. Almost very good condition.

A cheerful little book of rhymes based on the farm and its animals. Green pictorial boards, cloth spine. 3 colour plates and 2-tone (black and yellow) illustrations to contents throughout. Cover edges rubbed, corners worn. A few small dents to cover edges. New endpapers front and rear (which are lightly foxed). Contents clean.

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ZEBROLOGY
Written by H.A. Rey. Illustrated by H.A. Rey.
Stock no. 737037
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

Small oblong format. Cream pictorial card wraps. A story without words showing how the zebra came to be. 8 delightful colour pictures. Author's first English title. Inscription in ink (dated 1937) on front cover. Covers lightly creased with some slight scuffing on rear cover. Some light foxing to contents.

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GODHANGER
Written by Dick King-Smith. Illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
Stock no. 585471
Published by Doubleday. 1st 1996. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The animals of Godhanger Wood live in fear of the cruel gamekeeper; dreading his death-dealing daily round; terrified that they'll be next on the bloody gibbet... Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0385407785. Spine slightly bumped. Contents mint. Pictorial wrapper slightly creased at edges.

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