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THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS
Written by Thomas Ingoldsby. Illustrated by Harry G. Theaker.
Stock no. 1305118
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1911. Good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt vignette to front and title to spine. Page edges blue. 16 colour plates with tissue guard to frontis piece. 546 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Name plate to front pastedown. Front joint is cracked showing webbing. Endpapers and tissue-guard of frontis are browned, there is some foxing. The contents are generally clean.

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BONZO
Written by G.E. Studdy. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1305095
Published by Hachette. Very good condition.

Red spine, yellow pictorial boards. Colour and two-tone illustrations to each page with text (in French) besides them. 16pages. Slight wear to spine and corners. Top edge of rear cover is grubby. Contents lightly browned otherwise clean. Top corners are very slightly creased.

Price: £75.00 £56.25.

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BONZO VA A LA CHASSE
Written by G.E. Studdy. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1305094
Published by Hachette. Good condition.

Red spine, yellow pictorial boards. An average of 6 colour illustrations to each page with text (in French) besides them. 16pages. Covers are edge worn with loss of surface paper to spine. Covers grubby. Remains of white label to front cover. Contents are fingered and a little grubby generally.

Price: £60.00 £45.00.

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BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 23RD YEAR
Written by Madeline Barnes; Will H. Ogilvie; Jessie Pope; Evelyn Smith; et al. Illustrated by Frank Adams; Warwick Reynolds; Harry Rountree; et al..
Stock no. 1305091
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1926. Good condition.

Orange cloth spine, front cover shows girl & boy reading a book on floor. Colour plates. Two-tone & b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn, some scuffing to front cover, rear cover slightly grubby and spine slightly darkened. Name and address in pencil in belongs to box. Some grubby fingermarks and light foxing to contents.

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MARY
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
Stock no. 1305040
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1893. Very good condition.

A nursery story for very little children. Orange cloth with black decorations, gilt title to spine. 180 pages plus catalogue to rear. 7 full-page b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. A few small marks to covers, spine slightly browned. Endpapers lightly browned. Lower corner of front free-endpaper torn off. Tissue-guard to frontis is foxed. Contents clean.

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THE THIN GREY MAN
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Desmond Knight.
Stock no. 1305037
Published by MacMillan. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Crown Books Series. Grey/blue/black pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Light browning to half title-page and last text page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with some small tears and some slight loss, mainly top and tail of spine, there is a vertical crease to front flap.

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PRAYERS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
No author listed. Illustrated by Alison Cummings.
Stock no. 1804317
Published by Whitman Publishing Company. Circa 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A tell-a-tale book. Cream boards with green titles and vignettes. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations every page. Boards slightly grubby. Contents fine. Two prayers written in ink to verso of rear endpaper. Blue wrapper is edge-rubbed and grubby.

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MAGICIAN'S CIRCLE
Written by Peter Haining.
Stock no. 1804254
Published by Souvenir Press. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Spellbinding stories of Wizards and Wizardry by authors such as Pullman, Wilson, Dahl, etc. Edited by Haining. Black boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0285636812.

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SNUFFLES FOR SHORT
Written by Christine Chaundler. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1304999
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Black cloth, silver title to spine. Colour frontis. 6 b/w plates. Spine and corners bumped, a few light marks to covers. Light foxing else contents clean. Joint between front endpaper and half title-page is cracked. Dustwrapper is edge worn and marked, very small patch of surface paper damage and a large closed tear (repaired on verso) to front panel, tape repairs using masking tape on verso.

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A CHILD'S BOOK OF HOURS
Written by Constance Irving; Noel Irving.
Stock no. 1703716
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 1935. Good condition.

13 full-page coloured illustrations, many other illustrations to text. Printed on thick card, linen-hinged. Tall folio measuring 15 x 9.5". Cloth backed pictorial boards. Delightful rhymes featuring the hours of the day from morning to school-time, dinner time etc. Beautifully illustrated and unusually bound. Corners bumped. Edges worn. Some scuffing to covers. Front endpaper MISSING. A little foxing.

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STRANGERS AT THE ABBEY
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1304910
Published by Collins. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, green titles to spine. Colour frontis. 256 pages. Spine bumped and faded. A few light foxspots else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper has loss at top edges and is a little worn at corners.

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KATTIE OF THE BALKANS
Written by F.O.H. Nash. Illustrated by J.M. Pollock.
Stock no. 1304903
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1931. Very good condition.

An amazing adventure in which Bunnie is mistaken for Kattie and is taken far away into the wilds of Silaria, captive in a strange land. Green cloth, black titles. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. 152 pages. Spine and corners bumped, spine slightly faded. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few hinges are cracked but contents tight and clean.

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