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BUMBLE
Written by Magdalen Eldon. Illustrated by Magdalen Eldon.
Stock no. 1325846
Published by Collins. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Bumble is a Pekingese dog who is half Chinese and half Scottish but has a Devonshire accent! The story of his adventures and the MacMouse family is enchanting. Black and white pictorial boards, cloth spine. Colour pictorial endpapers and beautiful colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Spine and corners bumped, corners worn. Some light scuffing to covers. Some foxing else contents clean.

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CREATURES THAT WALK
Written by June Morton. Illustrated by Winifred Vaizey.
Stock no. 1325818
Published by A. & C. Black. 1st 1928. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Peeps at Nature for Little Folk. Pale brown covers with dark green titles and vignette. Colour frontis and illustrations throughout. 48 pages. 7.5 x 5". Spine and corners bumped. Some light foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and edge worn, minimal loss to spine and corners, and foxed on verso.

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TRYLLA AND OTHER SMALL FRY
Written by Gunnar Gunnarsson. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard.
Stock no. 1325810
Published by Hutchinson's Books for Young People. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine very slightly bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby and edge rubbed.

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CHUCKLES
Written by Jessie Pope. Illustrated by A.E. Kennedy.
Stock no. 1826484
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1926. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial front cover showing kitten and puppy. Blue cloth spine. Colour plates and two-tone illustrations throughout. Minimal text in verse below pictures. Board edges rubbed and worn. Boards grubby. Gift inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some foxing present, mainly to endpapers and text block. A few margin marks. All plates present. Musty odour present.

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FLAP YOUR WINGS
Written by P.D. Eastman. Illustrated by P.D. Eastman.
Stock no. 1826362
Published by Collins. 1972. Very good condition.

A Collins Early Bird Book. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0001381571. Rear board lightly faded. Green pen mark to last printed page else contents clean.

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ORLANDO (THE MARMALADE CAT) KEEPS A DOG
Written by Kathleen Hale. Illustrated by Kathleen Hale.
Stock no. 1325735
Published by Country Life. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format, purple pictorial boards, cloth spine. Delightful lithographed colour illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Stitching pulled causing contents to be slightly loose. Heavy foxing to endpapers, some slight foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and torn with some slight loss.

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GREY RABBIT AND THE CIRCUS
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1325726
Published by Collins. 1st 1961. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Burgundy pictorial boards. Burgundy and white pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. 63 numbered pages. Minimal rubbing to spine. Contents fine. Minimal rubbing to wrapper corners. A super copy.

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BLACK BRAMBLE WOOD
Written by Mollie Kaye. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1325664
Published by Collins. 1st 1938. Almost very good condition.

One of the Potter Pinner books. Square format. Pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations. Covers are slightly grubby with indentations (possibly the book has been leant on for colouring?). Spine bumped with fading to top and tail. Corners bumped and worn. Inscription in ink in belongs to box. Small amount of loss to corner of one page. Light foxing to endpapers. Grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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PETER RABBIT STORYTIME
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1325652
Published by Ted Smart; Frederick Warne. Circa 2005. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large (in comparision to the normal Potter books) format. Tales from Beatrix Potter. 4 volume set. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Books are fine. Dustwrapper are edge creased. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn.

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A MISCHIEVOUS LITTLE RABBIT TALES OF DANGER AND DARING
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1325649
Published by Frederick Warne; The Penguin Group. 1st 2011. Nearly fine condition.

Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 196 pages. ISBN: 9780723267850. Tiny spot to front cover else a fine copy. Contained in a matching slipcase with printed price blotted out on lower edge.

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THE SHEEP-PIG
Written by Dick King-Smith. Illustrated by Mary Rayner.
Stock no. 1325616
Published by Victor Gollancz. 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Charming story of a pig which thinks it's a sheepdog. B/w text illustrations. Winner of the Guardian Childrens's Fiction award 1984 and made into the film "Babe". Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0575033754. Third impression of the first edition. Spine very slightly bumped with a little fading to top of spine. Some foxing to textblock else contents clean. Dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine.

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LITTLE WHITE HEN
Written by Hajime Kijima. Illustrated by Setsuko Hane.
Stock no. 1325614
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of a little white hen who outwits the fox and his cunning tricks. Colourful pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0356025039. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. A few light foxspots else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with a tiny patch of surface paper damage to front panel.

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